When composing a message on my phone, I really want to see as much of my draft as possible and make use of all the available screen space. One of my biggest gripes is a fixed-size compose box that restricts me to only a couple lines of visible text when my screen still has room to display more lines.
While we're on the subject of making it easier to view content in Gmail, one more bit of news. We've been working on ways to make inline images show up in your messages, and you can now get some of those images to display by following these steps.
To try out, visit gmail.com on your iPhone/iPod touch (OS 2.2.1 or above, US English only) and create a home screen link for easy access.
Actually you didn't need to use the magnifying glass to scroll. Using two fingers scrolls a frame in a webpage.
Very nice. Now how about a "reply with selected text" option for the mobile web app. I can do it with the full gmail web app. I basically never want to quote the whole message, and with the mobile the only viable option is quote with everything or quote with nothing.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the compose screen auto-expand. Good job for thinking of good updates!
Can someone explain why these features are only enabled by default for Android and iPhone devices? Windows Mobile browsers have no problem handling these features (and in fact I set Opera 9.7's user agent to identify as iPhone to get most of them).
This feature doesn't work, but most "iphone and Android only" features do.
Can someone explain why Google is going out of their way to exclude Windows Mobile users from something that would work fine with no extra work for them?
Why aren't these features enabled for French (and possibly other) localizations? I still can't even swipe & delete and that has been implemented for U.S. English a long time ago.
Why does Google take forever to activate these features across the board?
We need this in normal gmail!
Now, I hope you'll do the same with those annoying issues in Google Reader.