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One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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They should make it more like the Android version, that one is awesome.

i don't know about that. i often get html-emails from companies which don't fit the screen. sometimes i can align it by adjusting to the left... shouldn't have to.

The new Gmail update included Pinch-to-Zoom. Check it out in the Settings. Works perfectly, solves this problem quite nicely.

Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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post #24

Google, I have the solution. Step 1: Checkout the Sparrow source code Step 2: Find and Replace All on the word "Sparrow" and change it to "Gmail" Step 3: Add push notifications. Compile and send to the app store.

I dunno about that - I really wanted to like Sparrow for iOS (aside from a couple bugs dealing with insane volumes of email, I love it on the desktop) but it never felt quite right to me. I've actually just now reinstalled it to check what bothered me so much, and it's the same issue I have with the new Gmail app: swipe-to-archive simply isn't there. Frequency of me archiving messages: extremely high. Frequency of ch…

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'swiping the other direction', but when I swipe from right to left on a message it displays an 'Archive' button over the message.

Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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post #23

Basically all of iOS has the tiny-text problem (on iPhone, at least) - both Safari and Chrome have zoom that doesn't reflow text, so you either have to read something tiny or frantically scroll left and right to read each line. It gives me a headache, and this is the first thing that's made me think about switching back to Android.

>both Safari and Chrome have zoom that doesn't reflow text What?! (That doesn't seem right...?)

It's not right, but it's true. No reflow on zoom in the iOS browser or WebViews

Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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post #23

Basically all of iOS has the tiny-text problem (on iPhone, at least) - both Safari and Chrome have zoom that doesn't reflow text, so you either have to read something tiny or frantically scroll left and right to read each line. It gives me a headache, and this is the first thing that's made me think about switching back to Android.

Usually it is not a problem because text-block width is a fraction of total page width. The text has around newspaper-column number of characters in a row so the zoom hides navigation and advertisement and makes the page readable.

The rest is fixed by "read later" button if content is worth it or "back" button if it is not.

Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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post #11

Disagree. The reason that Gmail for iOS and Gmail in general suck is the total lack of support for cryptography within the application (S/MIME, PGP, or other solutions). As a friend of mine said, "Gmail -- a private conversation between you, me, and 25,000 SREs."

And the NSA, CIA, FBI, KGB, Honest Achmed, your crazy ex wife/husband/bf/gf/dog, etc.

K9Mail at least provides crypto support, though it's painfully awkward to make use of on mobile.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959

Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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post #11

Disagree. The reason that Gmail for iOS and Gmail in general suck is the total lack of support for cryptography within the application (S/MIME, PGP, or other solutions). As a friend of mine said, "Gmail -- a private conversation between you, me, and 25,000 SREs."

Funny, but not necessarily true. Poking around in someone's personal data is a really, REALLY good way to get fired immediately.

also on the HN front page as we speak, beside this entry:

"'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4874462

Re: One reason Gmail for iOS still sucks

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post #23

Basically all of iOS has the tiny-text problem (on iPhone, at least) - both Safari and Chrome have zoom that doesn't reflow text, so you either have to read something tiny or frantically scroll left and right to read each line. It gives me a headache, and this is the first thing that's made me think about switching back to Android.

To be fair, mobile Safari does have the Readability-like 'Reader' mode that presents articles' text reflowed to fit comfortably on the iPhone's screen.
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