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Gmail finally lets you insert image in messages
In order to insert an image you'll have to have "rich formatting" turned on. Once it is, you should notice an image icon squeezed between the emoticon and link icons. Click it and you can upload an image to post in the body of your message. That's it.
Now can somebody explain to me why this is in the experimental "labs" section instead of being a standard update to the Gmail interface? Maybe it needs more testing, but really, Gmail has been around for 5 years. You'd think Google would have been able to work out the kinks in this feature by now.
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Subscribe to commentsBillApr 10th 2009 10:33AM
All the stuff in labs is built by folks in their 20% time so this is, undoubtedly, how they test each feature on a larger scale. Undoubtedly this will become a standard feature eventually
It seems like the core focus of the gmail team is working on the backend of Gmail and not so much on the front end (though they do maintain a lot of different UI's for accessing your mail).
Marc SavoyApr 10th 2009 1:29PM
This is indeed a handy feature that has been a long time in coming. The inability to insert images directly into the body of email has vexed me for years, the solution of which I resolved on my own when discovering that only Thunderbird allowed for images to be copied directly into the body of email.
I uncovered several ways in which I could do the same with gmail, one little known secret was to upload the image to google docs, which allowed for copy and paste directly in gmail,
But this is a most definite welcome improvement
archerApr 10th 2009 1:30PM
i've been inserting images in gmail since i started using it, which was pretty much at its beginning. on the web i now use splitbrowser and just drag and drop images into the composition field--previously dragged from separate browser window. and from the desktop, thunderbird.
Martin-TApr 10th 2009 4:38PM
I rarely use my GMail account. I tried but never got past some of the limitations. Honestly, how hard would it be for them to allow us to create folders or insert images?
dcApr 10th 2009 6:06PM
Wow, this is pretty cool. I'm not sure why it's so difficult to do this but I don't believe Hotmail or Yahoo! mail allow this yet.
Dave ForsterApr 11th 2009 7:46PM
like archer says... just drag and drop images inline
Crazy SerbApr 12th 2009 8:49AM
Gmail is great... until you try to sort the messages by date.
Why haven't they still implemented something as basic as that - if I want to view the latest messages on the bottom instead on top, why can't I just click on a "date" column (that still doesn't exist with a proper sortable header) and sort my messages ascending or descending.
How hard is it possibly to add something as trivial as that?!
Jesus...
QuikboyApr 12th 2009 8:03PM
That's why I don't use Gmail much- it may be nifty in some ways, but it lacks other basic things that I'm using in Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail all the time.
alnores.75Jul 18th 2009 10:15PM
How can I import a music file in my new composed mail and have it open and play when the receiver opens their mail? Any music pros out there?
yourcasaponteMay 8th 2009 3:59PM
I was able to do that but now suddenly instead of the image it just showa the icon, why is that?
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