Here's the one thing about Gmail that drives me nuts: It doesn't let you preview its line wrapping. This is terrible when you're including bits of code in an email. How hard could it be? You could even pull it off half-decently with Greasemonkey.
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
#32I tried to drag a file onto a gmail message the other day. It didn't work. Now that would get rid of Outlook for a lot of people.
Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
#33I tried to drag a file onto a gmail message the other day. It didn't work. Now that would get rid of Outlook for a lot of people.
This actually works for me.
Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
#34I tried to drag a file onto a gmail message the other day. It didn't work. Now that would get rid of Outlook for a lot of people.
This feature's been available on modern browsers for nearly a year now..
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachme...
Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
#35You can drag and drop them too. Just found that out the other day.
Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
#36Ability to drag images is not what's keeping people on Outlook.
Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
#37Are 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…
This is a browser feature. It wraps images with tags just like it wraps email addresses in a link when copied. The text editor just renders this HTML.
Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
#38Half 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?
Why the downvote? It's a known fact that the government there is purposely slowing down access to Google properties.
Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
#39I tried to drag a file onto a gmail message the other day. It didn't work. Now that would get rid of Outlook for a lot of people.
This feature's been available on modern browsers for nearly a year now.. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachme...
Yeah, that works fine, you just have to drag it into the area that gets highlighted for dropping.