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Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Post by anonymouz »

Hurdy wrote: post #47
anonymouz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree. We all have some sort of window manager that deals with handling multiple windows in a consistent way. We don't need every website reinventing window management in their own half-assed manner, that is utterly inconsistent with other sites and other applications.

I don't think the average user can really deal with multiple windows efficiently.

True. But I'm very skeptical that they'd be able to deal with a given websites' reinvention of multiple windows either (or even recognize it as such).

Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Post by Supreme »

facepalm

All of the pain points that this supposedly solves have already been solved with tabs. Middle click compose and all of those problems are solved with the added bonus of having an entire screen to write your email in.

Google is being taken over by pointy haired managers and marketing. RIP.

Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Post by devbryce »

masklinn wrote: post #34
jsdalton wrote: post #16

I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gm... ), and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there. To wit: When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal…

I find this theme great actually: it plain and simply doesn't work in Camino, which is my browser of choice, so I just blacklist any site which shows "the gear"

You blacklist a site based on that it doesn't work on a web browser that isn't even on the list of the 10 most used browsers? (src - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php)

Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Post by s_henry_paulson »

jfoutz wrote: post #48
asadotzler wrote: post #2

Is this really a step forward? It feels a little bit like a step backwards -- more like classic email clients and less like Gmail.

Well... I often need to write emails with specific details from other threads. this is way way faster than save draft, search, copy, go back to draft, and paste. Maybe there's a better workflow for this problem - but the draft saving way sucks.

right-click browser tab --> duplicate

Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Post by zaidf »

majorlazer wrote: post #49
zaidf wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is keeping with google's newly found traditions. For example, the ajax-ing of search has mostly broken the back key among others. Shit Case 1: sometimes you do a search, find a new phrase and begin typing it only to see the phrase disappear from the original search results and replaced with updated results for an incomplete and often incoherent query. Shit Case 2: often I begin typing a new search query and real…

I am one of those people that loves the AJAX search. I know it's generally hated around here but I think getting the suggested results as you type in your search is one of the best search features Google has implemented. For example, let's say I found some new framework for a new language I haven't worked with. I can easily find competing frameworks by typing in something like '[framework name] vs' and Google will wi…

You are talking about Suggestions which is an entirely different feature than auto-refreshing of search(though both use ajax so I could have used a better description in my OP). I personally love Suggests as much as you.

What I hate is when I type, say a few letters of my query, and begin seeing frivolous search results begin to appear. I hate when I hit the back key, often it takes me to the previous page or simply removes the last letter from my query and updates the results. I hate when I begin typing an obscure name I just found from another query and see it disappear after I have typed a couple of letters.

I was just fine hitting the "return" key to pull up search results.

Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Post by tolos »

Supreme wrote: post #52

facepalm All of the pain points that this supposedly solves have already been solved with tabs. Middle click compose and all of those problems are solved with the added bonus of having an entire screen to write your email in. Google is being taken over by pointy haired managers and marketing. RIP.

I would much prefer to have only one email tab/workspace; it helps me switch contexts. Of course, that is only my opinion.

Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail

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Post by marshallp »

guylhem wrote: post #42
marshallp wrote: post #33

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The failed cancer cures were biomolecules. This is about literally cooking it with beams, something hackers with a few hundreds in parts could attempt to do. The AI advance is seen as an advance by Peter Norvig (head of Google Research) himself. Both of them are hacker relevant potentially profitable business with huge upsides. Real advances can be made, especially by the hacker crowd. There's too much of a web 2.0 f…

The failed cancer cures were not just biomolecules - things like freezing the cancers in place, preventing the growth of new blood vessels, etc. If you're more into cooking, it is something we already do with various particles - and with multiple beams to minimize damage to surrouding tissues (google for gamma knife) It's a good thing Peter Norvig sees an advance. It'd be much better when that feeling is shared by th…

I see where you're coming from, but ultrasound is not like gamma knife, it truly is revolutionary (no sides effects + very cheap), and I'd put Norvig inside the science community of AI, he's head researcher of the premier AI company after all. These are current technologies, not futuristic, that are enabled by moore's law. You're assuming that what the crowd sees is what's right, and that isn't always right. The crowd didn't see search engines as important in the 90s but they were wrong.

Anyway, I'm not offended by gmail news, just wanted to get some ultrasound and some ai in there and put things in context.

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