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E-mail composition now the star of iPad's Gmail show

On Monday, Google issued a tweak to the way that iPad users interact with Gmail.com.

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Lest it be said that Google has forgotten about the iPad in its quest to optimize Gmail.com for iPhone and Android, the company issued a tweak today.

New Gmail.com for iPad.
Google gives the composition window the star treatment in a new Web design for iPad.

Now when you visit Gmail.com from the iPad, you'll notice a larger Compose window that expands across the screen to highlight your e-mail. Before the update, you'd see the width of the screen divided between the in-box on the left and the composition window on the right.

The change gives you deeper focus on the message, while still making it easy to save or discard an e-mail and get back to the in-box. In addition, Google announced that it also fixed a bug that blocked you from scrolling on long messages. The changes are limited to U.S. English right now, Google said.

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