Google GMail introduces rich text enabled E-Mail
News, Webmail Service March 31st, 2005
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Google GMail introduces rich text enabled E-Mail
It was only yesterday when we at TechWhack were thinking about the shortcomings GMail has now compared to the market leaders MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. Only one thing came to mind, which was the rich text formatted email composing and mail forwarding. Looks like the souls at the Google Labs were listening to our requests as in the morning we just found that Google has enhanced its webmail service GMail to incorporate rich text editing facility!
GMail as a result now supports fonts, bullets, highlighting, indenting and much more. Colors and few fonts are also available to be implemented on the text content. Impressively, forwarding HTML mails work fine as well. This was one area where Yahoo! had an advantage over Google GMail as forwarding messed up complicated HTML mails by converting it to text.
The facility is limited to the normal version of the GMail thus users stuck with older browsers (and frustratingly Opera) would not be able to use this extended functionality. However, you might not be able to see this new option in your GMail right now as the company is beta testing the service and introducing it slowly over all its accounts.
Google expects that in the coming weeks all the users of Google GMail would be upgraded with this service. To check if your GMail is updated, look for a ‘Rich formatting >>’ link in your compose window or the now very familiar ‘New Features!’ link on the top of your GMail window!
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It’s great news…
(But my account has not been updated yet…)
But the hidden gem in all this is that this enhancement goes WAY beyond just formatting a pretty message. If you have the Rich formatting editor enabled, when you reply to or forward an email that has rich formatting, the formatting is preserved! This has been a hugely lacking feature from day one–Gmail would strip out all formatting and only forward plain text. Before this update, I simply could not recommend Gmail to anyone other than the tech-savvy.
This fix now makes Gmail stand out as an excellent Web-based email client for the masses. See more details at my http://GmailTips.com site!
Neither has mein… ;-(
That is great news, but will it really take months to update everyone?
I LOVE GMAIL. I LOVE GOOGLE. This now can only serve to increase my zealot attitude. (Thank the Lord they added this feature)
The keyboard shortcuts (eg. CTRL U, CTRL B, CTRL I) all work too!
Would someone please invite me so that I may get gmail, too? Please, pretty please?
Where should I e-mail my “thank you” for those new features at Gmail?
Thank you Google. Thank you Gmail.
p.s. jhsehunt please try isnoop.net
Does anyone know, off the top of their head, which browser on Mac OS X support the rich text formatting? It doesn’t work with Safari or Camino. Firefox maybe?
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On Mac OS X, currently only Firefox supports rich formatting. Safari and Camino don`t, as won`t other Browsers which use the Webkit.