Gmail’s new interface, shortcuts and Safari
A poster on MacOSXHints makes a good point 
about the new Gmail interface and Safari.
Although Gmail’s new right-hand menu doesn’t work in Safari, the keyboard shortcuts for the options it contains work fine.
And they are, of course, “r” for Reply, “a” for Reply All and “f” for Forward.
Keyboard shortcuts are great. Although the jury is still out on whether they actually make you faster or just make you feel faster, just feeling faster is good.
So, it’s worth expanding these three to include all the keyboard tricks in a nice, complete and printable list of Gmail shortcuts .
Or if you are a real Google fanatic, the Complete Google Apps Cheatsheet .
Desktop email client fanatics like me will find it useful to know about the Thunderbird one (PDF) , the Entourage cheatsheet (PDF) and the complete list of Apple Mail shortcuts (PDF).
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December 2nd, 2006 at 7:25 am
I don’t think we have this new interface in the UK version of Gmail. I’ve tried in both Safari and Firefox (latest versions of both) and can’t see anything that looks like this new menu. When I click on the Check out our new features link, I get a not found error.
So it seems the Brits are not (yet?) benefiting from the new interface.
December 2nd, 2006 at 7:29 am
Yes, I think that’s true. I have my Gmail set to English (UK) and don’t see it either, but if I which to English (US) in the Settings, then the drop-down menu is there.
December 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 am
The real question remains: why *doesn’t* the feature work in Safari? And why doesn’t the GoogleTalk Contacts sidebar work? I’m guessing either these technologies aren’t implemented to standards or this indicates a lack of standards support in Safari. At any rate, it’s inconvenient. I use Gmail and prefer Safari over Firefox.
May 10th, 2007 at 7:22 am
What I cannot find a solution (or shortcut) for is anchoring links. Anyone find anything? Thanks in advance.