On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.comwrote:
Even an *exceptionally* plain product like Gmail has a more specific font family setting than Vector does at the moment.
And in Gmail, "I" and "l" look identical in the font that they chose. Often that doesn't matter, but sometimes it does and since they override it it's not as simple as configuring a better font in the browser (or not having to at all).
And then there are the several ways they screw around with the normal browser behavior in these reply boxes that are usability issues for me: I can't Ctrl-PgUp or Ctrl-PgDn to switch tabs, I can't Shift-PgUp or Shift-PgDn to select large blocks of text, I have to always choose the "Pop out reply" because the scrolling is screwed up in the inline reply and I can't actually see the entirety of the input field, etc.
So saying "We're not as fancy as Gmail" doesn't sound like a very compelling argument to me.