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Mar
Gmail uses Flash for better user experience
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Today I was attaching a file in Gmail and it was failing. I was wondering what the problem is when I saw a help button next to the attach button. I clicked it and it lead me to help page which said you need Flash Player to upload and you can change this advanced option in settings.

On setting page I found the following option

“ - See progress bars when attaching files to messages, and attach multiple files at once. Requires flash. Learn more “

Only then I realized that to show attachment progress, Gmail is using Flash. I checked, “Attach file” is a Flash button. It is amazing to see how Google used flash to improve the user experience.

And there are many who still says Flash is not user friendly :)

Update: I have posted more details here

One Response to “Gmail uses Flash for better user experience”

  1. File upload and Flash Player 10 issue Says:
    March 19th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    […] when I posted about Flash in Gmail I didn’t mentioned what the problem was. Here is my assumption on what the probelm was and […]

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