On 17 December 2013 16:45, Chris Muller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ah. I hadn't thought that many devs actually use the web UI for gmail, but >> perhaps they are :) > > > But that would defeat one of the primary purpose of using web email which is > access from any machine. > > Besides that, Gmail has the best UI, bar none. The handling of > Conversations is what sets it apart.
That's a horrible indictment of all webmail clients, because gmail's mail editor is utter rubbish. You can't paste anything even vaguely indented (like, oh I don't know, snippets of Smalltalk) without it "helpfully" unindenting everything, it strongly discourages correct use of email (i.e., not top-posting). Its new UI is a great leap backwards compared to its older UI. But, you know, it's free, it's available from every machine I care to use, and it has the best search facility of any mail client I've ever used. (Worst ever searching: Outlook.) frank
