My Drag and Drop attachment experience with Gmail

Today, I've read from CNET and Google System blog that Gmail added latest feature Drag and Drop attachment. How cool is that? Instead of looking for your files by click Attach a file, which shows up your file browser to locate your file, now you can simply open from separate Window your files and simply drag and drop attachment to your Gmail composition/new mail.


Here's some screen shots I took just a while ago.

Also, here's an excerpt from Google System Blog.

Gmail added support for a HTML5 feature that has been recently included in Firefox and Google Chrome: selecting files using drag and drop. If you use Firefox 3.6+ or Chrome 4+, you can now add attachments by dragging the files from your favorite file manager to Gmail. When you drag the files, Gmail shows a drop zone where you need to place the files.

Since I'm using Firefox 3.6, I'm lucky enough to try it. Have a try now!

Sources : CNET and Google System

Gmail outage

I learned from BBC that Gmail was down Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning but I haven't experienced it though. I don't missed using Gmail everyday and I think I'm lucky enough not to experience the outage.

Here's an update from Gmail blog.

Update (2:37 pm): We've fixed the issue, and Gmail should be back up and running as usual. We're still investigating the root cause of this outage, and we'll share more information soon. Thanks for bearing with us.

We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain. We don't usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind of information goes). Because this is impacting so many of you, we wanted to let you know we're currently looking into the issue and hope to have more info to share here shortly. If you have IMAP or POP set up already, you should be able to access your mail that way in the meantime. We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience and will get Gmail back up and running as soon as possible.

With that, hope everything okay with the million of Gmail users.