Have You Noticed Something Different, ... In GMail
I've been using GMail for a while, since Dale invited me in. But I noticed something different only today.
The links that you click on to read your mail, aren't HTML links at all. There is a slight difference in behavior—When you click on a normal HTML link, the action is triggered when the mouse button is released. In GMail, when you click on your mail, the action is triggered when the mouse button is pressed.
I'm surprised that it took me this long to discover this discrepancy. It also made me appreciate how different GMail is from ordinary web applications. I think I can argue that GMail is more like a Java applet then an HTML page.
Re: Have You Noticed Something Different, ... In GMail
Wel, yes and no...
In IE, they break the HTML link with JavaScript stuff...The purists may say that they shouldn't do that...I say whatever works...
In FireFox, because they can't break the JavaScript, the links are actually links: http://gmail.google.com/gmail?auth=DQAAAGsAAADoT8hPStHCWKb_E3VLW3g...[etc]...KCg1mkQFeD
In IE, they break the HTML link with JavaScript stuff...The purists may say that they shouldn't do that...I say whatever works...
In FireFox, because they can't break the JavaScript, the links are actually links: http://gmail.google.com/gmail?auth=DQAAAGsAAADoT8hPStHCWKb_E3VLW3g...[etc]...KCg1mkQFeD