Todd Ross wrote: > Ryan Gahl wrote: >> Huh? I use gmail now... it's supposed to handle this... >> >> When you hit reply, you're supposed to type at the top of the message, >> that's what is natural (I would never expect to have to scroll to the >> bottom >> to see someone's reply).
I don't necessarily like scrolling to the bottom to get to the response. I prefer inline responses. It's usually a very rare case that you can answer every point in someone's email coherently in one spot. What I really hate is reading someone's reply and then having to scroll farther down to read what questions were being answered. It's like reading a conversation backwards. Now that is unnatural. >>When you click in the reply box in gmail (or any >> other mail program I've used) it puts your cursor right up at the top. Actually most mail clients make this configurable. But it makes sense to put the cursor at the top if you respond inline, since the top is a good a place to start as any. >> I >> swear you use some weird email replying style... I've always always done it >> this way, and have never personally witnessed another person who did not... Wow, then you're pretty new to email aren't you. >> I really don't think I email wrong my man. >> >> I mean gmail always shows me quoted text correctly, is your mail program >> not? You're making me feel like an insane person, lol... Just because Gmail shows the quotes a certain way doesn't mean that it's the right way. It does a decent job of removing the quoted text when someone sends you a top-posted email (I think it's trying to compensate for people who never learned to in-line post :) > I don't think that because you use a product that does things one way > means that it's the right way. I'm definitely not of the opinion that > Gmail is the pinnacle of user interface design. [snip] > I like intermixing my comments with other peoples text as it's easier to > get the contextual meaning. Again, it's just a preference. ++ -- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
