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Saturday, June 26, 2004
Firefox and Gmail
Hi,
Me back with a blog relatively quickly. Two software products that amazed me recently are
I was blown over by its looks and performance. The looks have been made simpler since the previous release. It's said to be 3% faster and I found this to be very perceptible. Added to it there are a whole lot of plugins/extensions that are really cool. The ones that are a must have are the Web-developer one and the All-in-one-gestures. The second plugin lets you go back/forth in history by right-click and simultaneous drag to either the left/right side. This really is great thinking, why do you need to move your mouse till the top left of the window to go the previous/next page. The Web developer plugin has a lot of features for people who deal with websites: converting GET to POSTs(vice versa), view form details, outline tables and lots more. I am sure you will give this a try. I bet you won't go back to IE.
This is one product into which tremendous amount of research has gone. Did anyone question the fact "Why do you need to submit a web form to compose a reply to a mail?" All the necessary information is available at the client side, why not use code on the web-client side to achieve the same ends. Address book completion, relevant ads, threading(which other webmail service offers this facility??). Hoping the folks at Google will pack in lot of mail-client like features into their webmail service.
Me back with a blog relatively quickly. Two software products that amazed me recently are
Firefox
I was blown over by its looks and performance. The looks have been made simpler since the previous release. It's said to be 3% faster and I found this to be very perceptible. Added to it there are a whole lot of plugins/extensions that are really cool. The ones that are a must have are the Web-developer one and the All-in-one-gestures. The second plugin lets you go back/forth in history by right-click and simultaneous drag to either the left/right side. This really is great thinking, why do you need to move your mouse till the top left of the window to go the previous/next page. The Web developer plugin has a lot of features for people who deal with websites: converting GET to POSTs(vice versa), view form details, outline tables and lots more. I am sure you will give this a try. I bet you won't go back to IE.
Gmail
This is one product into which tremendous amount of research has gone. Did anyone question the fact "Why do you need to submit a web form to compose a reply to a mail?" All the necessary information is available at the client side, why not use code on the web-client side to achieve the same ends. Address book completion, relevant ads, threading(which other webmail service offers this facility??). Hoping the folks at Google will pack in lot of mail-client like features into their webmail service.
Have a nice weekend folks.
Natty
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Natty, In IE you need not go back to the top left of the window to go to previous/next page. Is not "Backspace" key as good an option as any?
# posted by 
: 10:24 PM
: 10:24 PM
What I was mentioning was you could go back a page with a very minimal mouse gesture than moving the mouse to the left top. All browsers have keyboard shortcuts to go back a page. I was'nt singling out IE in particular for this example.
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