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Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
- ronnier 16y agoIs not working for me. I also use Google for my domain, if that matters.
- aymeric 16y agoFinally! Now my screenshot workflow is down to two steps: Win+S (OneNote screenshot feature) CTRL+V
- archon810 16y agoThat is exactly what mine is too. I believe this makes us roughly 100 times more productive compared to those who need to cut an area from a screenshot and use something like Print Screen + PhotoShop.
- kprobst 16y agoI use Cropper (http://cropper.codeplex.com/ http://cropper.codeplex.com/). Works great, and both Notes and Outlook take the Ctrl+V just fine. Cropper can also be used to intercept PtrnScrn commands.
- rodh257 16y agoSnipping tool (Vista/7) has similar functionality, I keep it pinned to start menu, though more often than now I use Alt + PrintScrn to just copy the active window to clipboard.
- tapp 16y agoCan someone here confirm this is actually working for them? (Paste an image from the clipboard, send the email, check that the inline image was actually attached) It appears to me that FF4 is merely displaying the clipboard image in the rteditor in draft mode, but it is not actually attached to the email when sent.
- redstripe 16y agoI didn't for me. Looking in my sent box the message had an inline stream rather than an attachment: <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/7QAcUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNBAQAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAMCAgICAgMCAgIDAwMDBAcEBAQEBAgGBgUHCgkKCg...
- patrickaljord 16y agoWorks fine here on both chrome 12 and ff4 on ubuntu.
- archon810 16y agoCan you verify it actually works on the recipient side? I actually just tried send it out and found that the email actually ate up the image and it was not showing up. I may have jumped the gun here...
- guelo 16y agoSame here. Looking at the email source the MIME looks like it should work, but for some reason clients aren't interpreting it as HTML. Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd3282edb3e4e04a04d2812 --000e0cd3282edb3e4e04a04d2812 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 --000e0cd3282edb3e4e04a04d2812 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <img src=3D"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABJ8AAAQaCAIAAABik= k5NAAAgAElEQVR4nOzdd1QbZ77wcZK9e7O7d7PZTbmbZN+N49gG9xLHveACmOYKGIONe6V3MO42=
- mitali 16y agoThis has been a Gmail Labs for a long while... I have it enabled for all 3 of my gmail accounts for a while now.
- rdamico 16y agoThis is a big step forward for Gmail. Now if they could just add some simple mail merge functionality, that would be another super-useful feature.
- blub 16y agoNative e-mail clients still have the advantage of working with any e-mail server, including those that don't serve ads based on analyzing my e-mails. The whole local e-mail folder can be backed up to your favourite online backup if you feel that it's not safe to keep just a local copy.
- lini 16y agoAre you sure this is a Gmail feature and not a Firefox feature? I have been able to paste images into RTEs (rich text editors) since Firefox 3. If the image comes from the clipboard, Firefox will add the image data inline. It works in all RTEs I use - e.g. http://ckeditor.com/demo http://ckeditor.com/demo , http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/default/defaultcs.aspx http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/default... Since the src of the image is inline, you can save/send it as part of the HTML output of the editor - no attachments or separate upload is needed.
- archon810 16y agoI can't test this now, but I remember trying it many times in Firefox, and every time I'd get a little icon that showed a little broken image. It was only after the Firefox 4 upgrade, that it started working (well in gmail's case, kind of working). Having looked into what gets sent, it is definitely a Firefox thing, but for me, it only started doing it with 4.0, so hence this post.
- robszumski 16y agoThis is a browser feature. It wraps images with <img> tags just like it wraps email addresses in a <a href"mailto:"> link when copied. The text editor just renders this HTML.
- zavulon 16y agoHalf a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook. However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011), and haven't looked back since. It feels really good to use an email client again that responds to what I do instantenously. Web email clients still have a way to go.
- d_r 16y agoThis is interesting. Are you using Firefox by any chance? I was incredibly frustrated with Gmail speed on Firefox for a couple of years, but after switching to Chrome haven't seen a problem on any of my boxes.
- pistoriusp 16y agoI had the same experience, but with Safari instead of Firefox. Really wonder why this is happening.
- Garbage 16y agoMore specifically, if you have Firebug, then it slows down Gmail considerably.
- roel_v 16y agoBut gmail detects it, and tells you about it - at least it did for me.
- archon810 16y agoAre you from China by chance?
- archon810 16y agoWhy the downvote? It's a known fact that the government there is purposely slowing down access to Google properties.
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- ahrjay 16y agoHere's some interesting observations, this will work on any document that is in designMode or any element that has contenteditable attribute. Firefox doesn't have the clipboardData interface like IE, Chrome and Safari have so it must be built into Firefox. From a quick look it seems like it doesn't expose the stream data to JavaScript which is unfortunate, I would love for this to be available.
- psykotic 16y agoHere's the one thing about Gmail that drives me nuts: It doesn't let you preview its line wrapping. This is terrible when you're including bits of code in an email. How hard could it be? You could even pull it off half-decently with Greasemonkey.
- quannum 16y agoI tried to drag a file onto a gmail message the other day. It didn't work. Now that would get rid of Outlook for a lot of people.
- jupiter 16y agoThis actually works for me.
- shrikant 16y agoThis feature's been available on modern browsers for nearly a year now.. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachments-onto-messages.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachme...
- archon810 16y agoYeah, that works fine, you just have to drag it into the area that gets highlighted for dropping.
- sigzero 16y agoYou can drag and drop them too. Just found that out the other day.
- eli 16y agoAbility to drag images is not what's keeping people on Outlook.