Comments on: Google to let users test new Gmail features

Google will let users try new Gmail features the company is testing out at Gmail labs Thursday. A selection of 13 additions is on the initial list of options.

[faceless128]

fixed width font?

SOLD!

[Pete Bardo]

The 'snake game' may not be a great idea, but at least it's not evil.

[SVContrarian]

Wow! Fixed width - that's so...so... so... 1975. What's next, green screens? Oh, and how brilliant to create a feature to lock me out of my own account for 15 minutes because I'm so compulsive I can't stop doing gmail. Call me when they've really found something useful.

[Shankland]

It's a one-time setting--I actually think it's useful. I generally prefer variable-width fonts for better readability and for fitting more text on a given amount of real estate, but I'd like to be able to temporarily view a specific message in a fixed-width font.

[JoeF2]

Email is a *text* medium.
Fixed width is important for that. Email doesn't need fancy fonts. If you want fancy fonts, go and use Outlook...
And, ASCII art only works with fixed fonts.

[limefan913]

They're certainly interesting ideas, but I can't see them catching on, other than superstars. That being said, the idea of user created features is a great idea.

I hope the other, not yet mentioned ideas are cooler... though I'll probably play snake for about half an hour...

[skurewu]

The link to an email seems like an awesome idea if it allows you to publicly share an email message. Of course there's obvious problems with privacy and fat fingers, but nothing that can't be over come. With such a feature your email message can turn into a pseudo file sharing site.

[t8]

How dare they stop you from spamming.

[jatstuff]

1. There's no "labs" tab in my gmail settings. Is this one of these phased-in features where I get to use it last?

2. I don't suppose there's any annotation feature. I sure wish I could attach some personal notes to important emails...

[Web Hero]

Isn't that what the labeling is for??

[angrykeyboarder]

It's for organizing your messages (think of folders).

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12845

[mhenriday]

Presumably, jatstuff, Google is gradually «rolling out» this feature as it seems to do with all new ones - there's no «GMail Labs» tab in my «Settings» box either. That is the penalty for residing in the periphery - we here in Sweden should, I suppose, be glad that the name of the country is generally spelled correctly in the spellchecker (which does, however, have severe problems with the compound words so characteristic of the language)....

Henri

[ptzkiler]

I love gmail its really good it has good ability to work with attachments and security side it is best i think
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