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The big appeal seems to be that I can now navigate my inbox and switch between emails while composing. Isn't that what additional browser tabs are for?
by rwc 14y ago
The big appeal seems to be that I can now navigate my inbox and switch between emails while composing. Isn't that what additional browser tabs are for?
- alanctgardner2 14y agoThe Compose button is hard to open in a new tab. And frankly, their handling of drafts is a little confusing to me most of the time. So I think this is a welcome change. Actually, your whole argument is basically that windowing systems within windowing systems are pointless. Why have tabs when you can open a new window? Why have windows when you can buy more screens?
- peterwiese 14y agowindows are free? tabs are easier to reach windows? self-made window-systems never reach the quality of an os implementation?
- rwc 14y agoNo, new windows are different than new tabs. Tabbed browsing is a windowing system within a windowing system already. The new compose, if anything, is a windowing system within a windowing system within a windowing system.
- alanctgardner2 14y agoThis is kind of necessary, though, because of the nature of sandboxing. It would be awesome if every windowing system could expose it's API to random websites securely, but the compromise we live with is that every system produces a smaller sandbox, and people work to add as much functionality as they can within whatever box they're given. It'd be cool to see the Gmail team leverage some cross-window communication within the new framework they're creating.