Patrick Gage Kelley

Nels posted that gmail changed and though I have switched back to using gmail since it syncs with the phone now that it has IMAP, I have completely ceased using the web-app. Well it turns out they updated the web app, specifically with URLs that are linkable and also a new contact organizer/viewer. Also it seems they neglected to test on Safari.

While they used to just disable features in Safari (like gchat in the browser – which is now on, too bad, I liked it gone) it seems their new approach is just to just have them looking really funky. I can’t really even explain what kind of layout is going on here (it should look like this – scroll down ), normally when I see problems like this I can identify what they are doing wrong in the style sheets, but here I am pretty much clueless. Since everything is generated on the fly based on the javascript and then added into the DOM, there isnt any real html to go off, but my guess is that it is calculating absolute positions in correctly (it gets even worse on resize ).

Anyway this just made me laugh, I really like the idea of the engineers at google just dropping these random text fields and buttons on the page. It sort of looks like they just threw all the functional components up in the air and this is how they landed.