Gmail Gets Drag-and-Drop
by Wyatt Walter
I love the Gmail interface, but one of the things that I miss going from my Zimbra accounts at work to Gmail is that there’s no drag-and-drop. Well, that all changed when I logged into my account today. I don’t know that I would call drag-and-drop in a web email client a killer feature, necessarily, but as Google works to make web applications feel more like desktop applications, features like drag-and-drop will become more and more important. I was actually surprised that it took this long for them to bring this feature to Gmail. In a world where the push is to mix cloud and desktop applications, having these interfaces the same is going to be crucial.
The drag-and-drop interface does leave a bit to be desired as you actually have to grab a handle to the left of the message rather than just grabbing the message itself, but it’s something. I would expect that you would be able to just click and hold on either the subject or the sender within the interface to grab the message as this is the behavior in most desktop clients, but we will see.
Tags: gmail, google, zimbra
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Jul 2nd, 2009
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