Just a day after unveiling a variety of upgrades to its mobile Gmail interface, Google took the wraps off a new Labs feature for the desktop edition of its famed webmail client: Preview Pane.

In a blog post announcing Preview Pane, associate product manager Maciek Nowakowski writes that the new feature affords “a very familiar layout to those of you who have used Gmail on a tablet device”—a phrase which is linked specifically to Google’s blog post about Gmail on the iPad. The comparison is apt: Much like Gmail’s iPad-optimized edition, Preview Pane adds a large box to the traditional Gmail interface that shows the content of the currently selected message, without navigating away from your inbox.

More: http://www.macworld.com/article/161581/

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