Lots of strangely negative reactions here. We (http://inky.com) think this is a positive development and plan to support it as well. We're happy Google has promoted open standards in doing this.
Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox
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Re: Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox
#42I don't get it, wouldn't an html email with a form element do the same thing?
Some html elements (like forms, form elements, ...) won't work in emails/get stripped by (web-)mail clients. The same goes for JavaScript and a lot of CSS features. Probably would be a security nightmare.
Yeah.. it's not like forms work in Gmail. oh wait they do.
Get your facts straight.
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#44Lots of strangely negative reactions here. We ( http://inky.com ) think this is a positive development and plan to support it as well. We're happy Google has promoted open standards in doing this.
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#45I'm expecting "this email designed for gmail" badges soon.
"This email best viewed in Chrome."
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#46Lots of strangely negative reactions here. We ( http://inky.com ) think this is a positive development and plan to support it as well. We're happy Google has promoted open standards in doing this.
I don't think the reactions are strange at all. Google have a bad track record in implementing things and then abandoning them for one.
I want my email to be a consistent experience - not to get some different behavior if I access through a certain device. Email and its simplicity was universal - I saw the same text on my phone, tablet, laptop and desktop. Will every mail sender who makes use of this, include the JSON and an alternative link to achieve the same result. I think this could get very inconsistent very quickly. Fragmenting email is not something I like the idea of.
For Google Apps customers' internal mails I think this is useful. For the wider Internet I don't like it.
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#47Whatever happened to the Unix philosphy? 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well'. Last thing I want in my inbox. Call me a purist but email is for emailing people.
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#48I tried to email the following two examples with a simple SMTP python script: https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/actions/end-to-e... (The html with my own link) https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/embedding-schema... From my account to the same account but it did not render any actions in my gmail inbox. Did any of you guys succeed in making the buttons appear?
I couldn't even get their online Validator to accept their example code. I'm guessing they're still working on it.
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#49Can the response include who is clicking the action? For example, if you want to take a quick poll from within an email that is sent to multiple people, can you identify who is voting for what?
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#50Why don't they support a mechanism which works with plain text emails? E.g. put the JSON stuff into a header field.
Btw how would one suggest something like this officially? There seems to be no issue tracker or anything for gmail.