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Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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Half a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook.

However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011), and haven't looked back since. It feels really good to use an email client again that responds to what I do instantenously. Web email clients still have a way to go.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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post #21

Half a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook. However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011), and haven't looked back since. It feels really good to use an email client again that responds to what I do instantenously . Web email clients still have a way to go.

This is interesting. Are you using Firefox by any chance? I was incredibly frustrated with Gmail speed on Firefox for a couple of years, but after switching to Chrome haven't seen a problem on any of my boxes.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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post #21

Half a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook. However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011), and haven't looked back since. It feels really good to use an email client again that responds to what I do instantenously . Web email clients still have a way to go.

This is interesting. Are you using Firefox by any chance? I was incredibly frustrated with Gmail speed on Firefox for a couple of years, but after switching to Chrome haven't seen a problem on any of my boxes.

I had the same experience, but with Safari instead of Firefox. Really wonder why this is happening.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just posted an update with some findings - basically, those "3D" and =\r\n characters that something is adding (somewhere in Gmail) are messing everything up. We're this close to a working version of this...

Oh yea, I didn't notice that 3D. It's weird because ascii 3D is just an = sign.

=3D indicates quoted-printable encoding for 7-bit transports.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

#25
post #21

Half a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook. However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011), and haven't looked back since. It feels really good to use an email client again that responds to what I do instantenously . Web email clients still have a way to go.

Are you from China by chance?

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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post #20

Are you sure this is a Gmail feature and not a Firefox feature? I have been able to paste images into RTEs (rich text editors) since Firefox 3. If the image comes from the clipboard, Firefox will add the image data inline. It works in all RTEs I use - e.g. http://ckeditor.com/demo , http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/default... Since the src of the image is inline, you can save/send it as part of th…

I can't test this now, but I remember trying it many times in Firefox, and every time I'd get a little icon that showed a little broken image. It was only after the Firefox 4 upgrade, that it started working (well in gmail's case, kind of working).

Having looked into what gets sent, it is definitely a Firefox thing, but for me, it only started doing it with 4.0, so hence this post.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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post #21

Half a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook. However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011), and haven't looked back since. It feels really good to use an email client again that responds to what I do instantenously . Web email clients still have a way to go.

I'm using Google Apps and haven't noticed any slow down. Still happy as Larry.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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post #22
post #21

Half a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook. However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011), and haven't looked back since. It feels really good to use an email client again that responds to what I do instantenously . Web email clients still have a way to go.

This is interesting. Are you using Firefox by any chance? I was incredibly frustrated with Gmail speed on Firefox for a couple of years, but after switching to Chrome haven't seen a problem on any of my boxes.

More specifically, if you have Firebug, then it slows down Gmail considerably.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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post #28
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is interesting. Are you using Firefox by any chance? I was incredibly frustrated with Gmail speed on Firefox for a couple of years, but after switching to Chrome haven't seen a problem on any of my boxes.

More specifically, if you have Firebug, then it slows down Gmail considerably.

But gmail detects it, and tells you about it - at least it did for me.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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Here's some interesting observations, this will work on any document that is in designMode or any element that has contenteditable attribute.

Firefox doesn't have the clipboardData interface like IE, Chrome and Safari have so it must be built into Firefox. From a quick look it seems like it doesn't expose the stream data to JavaScript which is unfortunate, I would love for this to be available.

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