Wednesday, June 27. 2007A GMail AnnoyanceI love gmail. Really, I think it is the best web based email software I have ever used. The keyboard shortcuts make browsing through emails and conversations a breeze. Everyone has their pet peeves, so here is mine. The UI for navigating between links is quite standard - click on newer or older in the email header to navigate:
Google’s help center for keyboard shortcuts lists the j key to move an older conversation and the k key to browse newer. Have you looked at your keyboard lately? If you haven’t, take a peek:
Notice that the j key is to the left of the k key. So according to those keyboard shortcuts, newer conversations are on the right of the keyboard, but unfortunately this is switched relative to the user interface, where a newer conversation link is on the left. Trackbacks
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Geez did I already mention that these spam-prevention things really really suck! It took 10 tries to get through this procedure.
The most annoying thing with GMail is that it insist on having receiver names commented. The email standard clarly spesifies:
Full Name "Comment"
As Stalwart pointed out, it just follows the traditional vi shortcuts.
Since newer e-mails are above, that's k, and older ones below, that's j; which are vi's traditional up/down shortcuts. h would be left, and l right. There you have a complete set of extra arrows keys, which really come handy once you get used to them. AFAIK some really old keyboards (not that I got to use or see them) lacked arrows, which explains its origin.
They could just reverse the newer//older.
new is forward... =) then the keys will line up too! |
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