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Quoting at the top doesn't feel right to me. Scrolling usually happens from top to bottom. While email clients could simply send the scrollbar to the bottom of
by dictum 13y ago
Quoting at the top doesn't feel right to me.
Scrolling usually happens from top to bottom. While email clients could simply send the scrollbar to the bottom of the page by default, displaying the message from the bottom, letting the user read the quoted message if they want, it would probably be hard to implement without breaking HTML email.
Scrolling from bottom to top is natural when you want to see something again because you already scrolled to the bottom, but it feels weird when you have to first read the bottom of the page, then scroll up.
- mattlutze 13y agoI think there's a natural analog to newest on top that makes quoting on top feel odd. The schema for discovering old things is to go down -- any excavation, you find the newest artifacts on top, generally, and older the lower you go. That pile of letters on the kitchen table, newest on top. Grids, pencil sketches, original painting decisions are all underneath the newest layer of paint in a painting. I ramble, but, the thought that someone could or should summarize a 30 email conversation, and rewrite that summary each time a new email is sent, is just silly to me.