> January 6, 2006 @ 11:17 am

>One kind of strange suggestion I have, is this:

>When I log on to Gmail, some times, when I start typing in the username before >the page has finished loading, as soon as the page finishes loading, the script >automatically “tabs” me over to the password field so I type the rest of the >username into the password field.

>I had a quick peak at the source of the gmail login page, and from what I found, >the problem was with the gaia_setFocus() function, which is called by the >onLoad() function when the body of the page loads. It would be nice if this could >be changed, as it happens every few days for me.

I totally agree with you Nathan. The same thing happens to me and it is VERY annoying. Come on Google guys, this really is a PITA.

If I put my cursor in the Username field, it’s because I want to type my username, not my password. I’m not stupid you know.

Can’t you at least put that javascript in a separate file so i can Adblock it if I want to?

Thanks

Gmail : Order emails by subject, from, ….

Calendar : Config your location by default, and use it on your events automatically

(These feature requests for results display are detailed in my blog post).

Example: I want to track “when” the initial click happened, as in a week ago, a month ago, etc. I can do this with campaign codes in the landing page URL, but if I reset those codes weekly, I end up continually dumping my history and the ad is “punished” versus competitor ads – even though the copy and landing page never changed.

When tracking visitor history over time at the unique visitor level, you want to be able to embed “source” data in the tracking and this includes a “time stamp” for the original click source.

Running conversion reports without knowing if the campaign was clicked yesterday or 2 weeks ago is a very sub-optimal way to approach tracking visitor behavior; capturing “Recency” is critical.

But it’s tough to do much testing on this if I have to take a performance / sales hit every time I change the tracking codes. Perhaps this “new ad” approach to changes in URL string was envisioned as a “feature” to help people keep track of their ad versions but can’t you do that with reporting? It’s a feature I wish I could turn off.

Or with the personalised front page, you at least ought to have a ‘my feeds’ section on the left with the ones from the feed reader.

And perhaps an option, when logged in when on blogsearch, a tick box/something else to limit you to your own feeds.

And not being able to apply lables to draft messages drives me mad!

How about translation built into GMail? Or blogger? etc etc…

I think you should get together, write a map of all your different products, list their key features (e.g. ‘feeds’), then see from there what connecting lines can be drawn between them that don’t already exist.

Then you could see to a reasonable to degree whether or not people are trustworthy. It would probably eliminate a lot of spam problems also because people would be less inclined to take notice of fake accounts with no reputation.

Adsense
- not to show ads for certain IPs
- more tracking info like “http referrer” (would be great to see even how much every click earn)