[TriLUG] Are any other trilug gmailers bothered by the recentformat change.

[Ian Meyer]

now, in Safari, they're back, and along the right side again...

mayhaps they're just tweaking it around still, messing with it, and
getting feedback?

~ian


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:59:02 -0400, Jim Wright <jwright at netcentrics.com> wrote:
> When I saw these messages earlier today and saw that different people
> were getting different views, I thought maybe they were detecting
> message length or browser dimensions and putting the ads in different
> places based on that.  But my limited experiments didn't validate that.
> I think they are just moving them to the bottom so that when they
> pop-in, the message text width is not affected.  I have had messages
> where no ads showed up...guess they just weren't commercial enough
> subjects.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Ian Meyer
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:23 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Are any other trilug gmailers bothered by the
> recentformat change.
> 
> i'm reading this in IE on a PC in the Cameron Village library, and see
> *no* ads whatsoever
> 
> I also noticed this in Safari at home on my Mac.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> ~ian
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:35:17 -0400, Ryan Leathers
> <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com> wrote:
> > I still see 'em on the right in both firefox and ie
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Frye [mailto:mattfrye at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:10 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Are any other trilug gmailers bothered by the
> > recent format change.
> >
> > > > > I, for one, actually like those links. It's like having someone
> > > > > else injecting comments into the conversation, sometimes the
> > > > > comments are useful, and sometimes they are funny. But having
> > > > > them on the bottom where they are now makes them feel more like
> > > > > something that I have to explicitly "step over."
> >
> > I don't use IE, so I can't say where they are for IE users.  From a
> > Firefox perspective, at least my Firefox perspective, they are on the
> > right.  I don't know if this is a function of the userid or browser
> > profile (seems less likely), but I do know that a fair amount of
> > subtle changes have come and gone in gmail; I've noticed mostly
> > because I've been paying special attention to the interface.
> >
> > Truth be told, I rarely notice the ads unless I make a point to check
> > them out for weirdness, e.g. a recent Red-CAP thread entitled "open
> > source wrestling?".
> >
> > MPF
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