Think about it a bit more, and the red font color upon input of recipients which do not have *any* autocomplete matches is not just irritating when entering valid addresses, but it's actually useless, apart from not working consistently. I propose to remove this red font color thing from address inputs entirely. 1) Type fast the beginning of a known recipient: shows red first, then changes to black as autocomplete finds matches. Type slow again, no red. Inconsistent, useless - why warn in the first place for known recipient? 2) So if i have `John Doe <john@example.com>` in my AB, and type `John Miller <john.miller@foo.bar>`, the new address will remain red even when completely entered - why warn for a completely correct address? That's extremely irritating. Then red will go away when I press Enter and valid pill is created, so what was it really warning me about all along? We may enter new email addresses all day, and TB shouldn't suggest that there's someting wrong with that. Yes, any new address won't have an autocomplete match - so what? 3) Given 2 - valid new addresses - what's the purpose of this red color? To warn me that it's not matching anything from my AB? - Right, so if I want a particular match from my AB, and type the *right* thing - it will autocomplete (very visible), and I press Enter or Tab to autocomplete when satisfied, which will ensure correct address. - If I start typing the *wrong* thing which *accidentally does not match anyone else*, but *matches no one* (which is the only case where we can show red), I will see immediately that it's NOT autocompleting - no results dropdown, no inline autocompletion (very visible). So red color doesn't add anything. 4) Pasting any fully valid email address: `John Miller <john.miller@foo.bar>` - marked red until confirmed with Enter! WHY? It's useless! 5) Worse: Even when pasting a full address which **is** in your AB, it will be marked red until confirmed with Enter or blurred. Inconsistent, and very wrong, kinda leading the "feature" ad absurdum...
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Think about it a bit more, and the red font color upon input of recipients which do not have *any* autocomplete matches is not just irritating when entering valid addresses, but it's actually useless, apart from not working consistently. I propose to remove this red font color thing from address inputs entirely. 1) Type fast the beginning of a known recipient: shows red first, then changes to black as autocomplete finds matches. Type slow again, no red. Inconsistent, useless - why warn in the first place for known recipient? 2) So if i have `John Doe <john@example.com>` in my AB, and type `John Miller <john.miller@foo.bar>`, the new address will remain red even when completely entered - why warn for a completely correct address? That's extremely irritating. Then red will go away when I press Enter and valid pill is created, so what was it really warning me about all along? We may enter new email addresses all day, and TB shouldn't suggest that there's someting wrong with that. Yes, any new address won't have an autocomplete match - so what? 3) Given 2 - valid new addresses - what's the purpose of this red color? To warn me that it's not matching anything from my AB? - Right, so if I want a particular match from my AB, and type the *right* thing - it will autocomplete (very visible), and I press Enter or Tab to autocomplete when satisfied, which will ensure correct address. - If I start typing the *wrong* thing which *accidentally does not match anyone else*, but *matches no one* (which is the only case where we can show red), I will see immediately that it's NOT autocompleting - no results dropdown, no inline autocompletion (very visible). So red color doesn't add anything. 4) Pasting any fully valid email address: `John Miller <john.miller@foo.bar>` - marked red until confirmed with Enter! WHY? It's useless! 5) Worse: Even when pasting a full address `John Doe <john@example.com>` which **is** in your AB, it will be marked red until confirmed with Enter or blurred. Inconsistent, and very wrong, kinda leading the "feature" ad absurdum...
Think about it a bit more, and the red font color upon input of recipients which do not have *any* autocomplete matches is not just irritating when entering valid addresses, but it's actually useless, apart from not working consistently. I propose to remove this red font color thing from address inputs entirely. 1) Type fast the beginning of a known recipient: shows red first, then changes to black as autocomplete finds matches. Type slow again, no red. Inconsistent, useless - why warn in the first place for known recipient? 2) So if i have `John Doe <john@example.com>` in my AB, and type `John Miller <john.miller@foo.bar>`, the new address will remain red even when completely entered - why warn for a completely correct address? That's extremely irritating. Then red will go away when I press Enter and valid pill is created, so what was it really warning me about all along? We may enter new email addresses all day, and TB shouldn't suggest that there's someting wrong with that. Yes, any new address won't have an autocomplete match - so what? 3) Given 2 - valid new addresses - what's the purpose of this red color? To warn me that it's not matching anything from my AB? - Right, so if I want a particular match from my AB, and type the *right* thing - it will autocomplete (very visible), and I press Enter or Tab to autocomplete when satisfied, which will ensure correct address. - If I start typing the *wrong* thing which *accidentally does not match anyone else*, but *matches no one* (which is the only case where we can show red), I will see immediately that it's NOT autocompleting - no results dropdown, no inline autocompletion (very visible). So red color doesn't add anything. Note that we will *not* warn if your input autocompletes *wrongly* against your intentions (we can't guess that), but only if it happens to autocomplete *nothing* - so you'll have to double-check autocompletion anyway... 4) Pasting any fully valid email address: `John Miller <john.miller@foo.bar>` - marked red until confirmed with Enter! WHY? It's useless! 5) Worse: Even when pasting a full address `John Doe <john@example.com>` which **is** in your AB, it will be marked red until confirmed with Enter or blurred. Inconsistent, and very wrong, kinda leading the "feature" ad absurdum...