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[Michael Spencer <spencers1993@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/25/2013 08:50 AM, Zisu Andrei wrote:
>
>     However, using a page stack, at least on the phone, makes the most
>     sense in my opinion, because it conveys the hierarchy of the email
>     layout well:
>
>
> There is one major flaw I see straightaway and which has been raised
> many times on this thread: you open an email from a notification, you
> tap the back button, where do you go: inbox or back to the
> notifications?  

I haven't been following this until recently. However, this doesn't seem
to be a flaw in the design of an app but instead should be something
addressed by the OS/toolkit, so every app behaves in the same way.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think the toolkit already addresses
this: the back button is only shown if there are levels to return to, so
if the email page was pushed as the only page, the back button would
never even be shown, and there would be no cause for confusion.

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