On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 8:15 pm, Mayank Jain wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 18:07, abhishek tiwari wrote: > > the advantage of a gmail acc is 1 GB mailbox, thats > > only one i can think of.u can get 1 GB at > > rediffmail.com > > BTW, gmail also has a drawback, which interestingly nobody seems to be > mentioning. It does not opens on normal browsers like konqueror, opera, > etc. Only Mozilla seems to be ok! > > this was one of the most annoying things about gmail, since every time i > had to open gmail, i had to start mozilla, which is vry RAM intensive > for me (considering, i'm alive using celeron-800 & 256mb ram).
There are many many other problems with gmail other than browser compatibility (BTW, even IE5 doesnt work well with it). The major problem is accessibility - as an example, the keyboard shortcuts need a mouse to be activated. So if you have a machine without a mouse, it is practically impossible to work with it. Take a look at this article to find out a comprehensive analysis of what is so wrong with it. http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/04/10/gmail-accessibility - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home: http://www.sandipb.net PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 Use the "telephone test" for readability. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher) _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
