I feel that email should be simple (and reasonably fast to access). But it seems that, in the move to BT Mail, BT have chosen to make it more complicated than it needs to be or should be. This seems to be an unfortunate habit of many web designers today. They seem to do things because they can rather than because they should. The KISS rule, which has served us so well over time, seems abandoned or no longer instilled. We have to have oodles of icons for no apparent reason, as though there has to be an assumption that people cannot read simple words and phrases like 'reply', 'mark as read' etc. Likewise a number of different ways to do exactly the same thing. Are all those 'previews' etc., really necessary?
Personally, I do not think it advantageous to have lists published as single pages running extensive script. It reminds me of scrolls (or rolls). They were in use once, but then things moved over the the convenience of multiple leaves. I am not sure returning to scrolls is a great idea. None of my PCs & browsers like it. Chewing up resources they have the ability to slow them down, greatly, and cause them to hang. I find I now have the ability to view the trash going back in an endless stream over many years, much of which I had thought was automatically deleted long ago. Moving down the list takes a while to display, as does moving back up again. Is it not more sensible to allow a user to choose a page display length?
I'm also caused to wonder why this stuff is still hanging around.
