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Found some gripes with GMail (actually was going to write about 3 gripes, but they just fixed one of them recently...not letting you navigate away from an unsent email without prompting you to save it/send it/whatever...similar to what .Text does for posts).  The gripe is:  Email address autocomplete only works for multiple addresses seperated with a comma (if the previous email address is autocompleted, a comma is automatically inserted after the address, for email addresses keyed in manually, it's up to the user to key in a seperator...coming from the Outlook world, I use a semicolon (yes, this is configurable in Outlook prefs to accept a comma, which is my point)); I thought the autocomplete feature was half baked, but it only works in comma seperated email addresses.  IMO, both commas and semicolons should be acceptable values.  Nitpicky?  Yes...however, most of their user based will be coming from Outlook/Outlook Express backgrounds.  Other gripe:  Automatic spell checking upon sending an email.  Again, nitpicky...but if GMail can ask you whether you want to browse away from an unsent email, it can run a spell check for you, and again my reasoning is the same as the first gripe (of course this should be user specified in the settings).  Cheers.
Posted Sep 07 2004, 12:15 AM by Jayson Knight
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3 Comments

Shannon J Hager wrote re: GMail Gripes
on 09-07-2004 9:43 PM
You (and everyone else) would quickly stop using the auto-spellcheck option until they add my 2nd fave missing feature: a custom user spellchecktionary. We can't add words to the spell check dictionary, so autospell check would be more of a hassle than help for many of us (especially people like me who insist on using made-up words like "spellchecktionary").
Shannon J Hager wrote re: GMail Gripes
on 09-07-2004 9:45 PM
oh yeah, just in case you haven't seen this already:

http://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_suggest/

Mat Hall wrote re: GMail Gripes
on 09-17-2004 5:53 PM
They've fixed it -- I filed a bug report about it, and got a reply a couple of days ago informing me it's now in line with reality. Quite impressed with the turnaround, really -- about 2 days between reporting the issue and it being resolved.

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