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Close on the heels of a mid-April addition that allowed users to add attachments to mails by simply dragging them into the composing window, Google has enabled a new feature fresh from Labs. The update on May 11th allows users to add pictures to regular mails as parts of the mail itself. Instead of having to view, scan and download attachments, the process is reduced to the natural method of viewing images within the text. Many a Gmail user should benefit from this addition as it lessens the burden of searching for your file through a maze of directories.
This feature, being a child of Google Labs, might be familiar to users that have tried it earlier with the basic addition installed. Essentially a combination of the previous drag-and-drop addition and the Labs image uploader, it has the support of the Labs team and testers apart from the Beta testers of the verification program.
Here’s what we can look forward to the next time we open our Gmail inboxes:
Courtesy: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com
Google appears to be focusing all its energies on improving its existing line of services after the apparent failure of its networking app to create any buzz (pun intended). What remains to be seen now is whether these changes to Gmail will be ported to other services – rumors of Orkut gaining these benefits are doing their rounds; as are those of maturing Labs projects being included in all of Gmail’s services.
For now, the facility to add images directly is only supported by Chrome, Google’s native web browser. Promises have been made to develop ports to other browsers soon.
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