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

[Jim Wright]

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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