now, in Safari, they're back, and along the right side again... mayhaps they're just tweaking it around still, messing with it, and getting feedback?
~ian On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:59:02 -0400, Jim Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I saw these messages earlier today and saw that different people > were getting different views, I thought maybe they were detecting > message length or browser dimensions and putting the ads in different > places based on that. But my limited experiments didn't validate that. > I think they are just moving them to the bottom so that when they > pop-in, the message text width is not affected. I have had messages > where no ads showed up...guess they just weren't commercial enough > subjects. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ian Meyer > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:23 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Are any other trilug gmailers bothered by the > recentformat change. > > i'm reading this in IE on a PC in the Cameron Village library, and see > *no* ads whatsoever > > I also noticed this in Safari at home on my Mac. > > Hmm. > > ~ian > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:35:17 -0400, Ryan Leathers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still see 'em on the right in both firefox and ie > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Frye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:10 PM > > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Are any other trilug gmailers bothered by the > > recent format change. > > > > > > > I, for one, actually like those links. It's like having someone > > > > > else injecting comments into the conversation, sometimes the > > > > > comments are useful, and sometimes they are funny. But having > > > > > them on the bottom where they are now makes them feel more like > > > > > something that I have to explicitly "step over." > > > > I don't use IE, so I can't say where they are for IE users. From a > > Firefox perspective, at least my Firefox perspective, they are on the > > right. I don't know if this is a function of the userid or browser > > profile (seems less likely), but I do know that a fair amount of > > subtle changes have come and gone in gmail; I've noticed mostly > > because I've been paying special attention to the interface. > > > > Truth be told, I rarely notice the ads unless I make a point to check > > them out for weirdness, e.g. a recent Red-CAP thread entitled "open > > source wrestling?". > > > > MPF > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
