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The rot was setting in long before Larry Page became CEO. For me, the first sign was GMail and their broken/perverted IMAP model.
by yapcguy 13y ago
The rot was setting in long before Larry Page became CEO. For me, the first sign was GMail and their broken/perverted IMAP model.
- stephenr 13y agoI never understood why they didn't just expose their tags as imap keywords?
- saurik 13y agoI think the argument is that no existing client that a user would actually have on their PC supported flags in any meaningful way: they weren't stored efficiently, they weren't presented in a way the user could effectively see, and in many cases they were limited to a random subset of flags (in the case of some clients, like Thunderbird, you could have exactly five flags with the names flag1 through flag5). The support in some clients has become more reasonable, but it is still not really usable. Even at the protocol level it is only recently that there is any effective way where flags could be efficiently resynchronized between the client and the server, and AFAIK there still isn't a standard to let flags have remap able high-level Unicode names. Sure, it would be interesting to push client developers to start maybe considering flags to be an interesting thing to support sufficiently to let a user work with Gmail, but frankly wouldn't we expect Google, as users, to build something actually usable?