I’m probably being waaay too picky here but does the Gmail status message (you know, the one highlighted with yellow) annoy anyone else? Don’t get me wrong now, I don’t mind the message at all or even the fact that it’s highlighted. I just hate the fact that it doesn’t go away unless I do something.
In the interest of full disclosure, you should keep in mind that I’m the kind of guy who has always needed to have every one of his mails marked as ‘read’ before I feel like everything is right with the world again.
Go Away Yellow!!
“But it’s functional” you say, “It isn’t supposed to disappear by design” (giving you the longest possible opportunity to take action). While I understand that concept there is just something about the fact that it is big bold and yellow that compels me to make it disappear. Sometimes, when it’s very late at night, I almost even convince myself that if I wait long enough, it might go away on it’s own… but alas, it never does.
Ideally, I wish that Gmail animated a degradation from yellow to maybe the Gmail blue so the message would be less noticeable. For those of you familiar with the Wordpress Admin interface or the animation of script.aculo.us prototype jquery then you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Have the snazzy script.aculo.us js-library animations spoiled me or am I just being way too anal? Please tell me someone else out there is bothered (at some level) by the Gmail status message!
