really?

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

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really?

okay, just to play devil's advocate a bit.

This is a business level mail/server environment. Are graphical emoticons really something that should be offered up in an email context (IM is different, for a multitude of reasons).

I can see the point of trying to minimize interface differences, although the two mediums have different purposes. Shouldn't adding the editing options that make formatting IMs easier to e-mails be a better goal than emoticons? How about the foreground color, return to default, or hyperlink? I realize that some of these have keyboard shortcuts. These things at least have strong use case with the intended product userbase.

Now, while I disagree w/ the emoticon button being there, at the end of the day I don't care as long as the more useful stuff is there first.

Feedback response number WEBB7LYUDH created by ~Chris Bubrelitings on 12/03/2008