<div dir="ltr">Yes, any mail "system" I've ever seen has an "attach" option. <div><br></div><div>What they DON'T have is integration to Windows such that if you click a link that is associated with email, (e.g. right-click a jpg file in MyPictures or click an "email me" link on a web site,) it would automagically open gmail or whatever. Instead, even though I have no need whatsoever for Outlook, that's what I get. </div> <div><br></div><div>Gmail and Yahoo do have means (via add-ons) in Firefox to become the email "client" if you click a link in that browser. Interestingly, Google has not integrated other Google products into its new "Chrome" browser. If I click a "mailto:" link in Chrome, I get Outlook.</div> <div><br></div><div>Paul Bruesch<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Ron Nossaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div> After all these years of personal computing, you'd think some sensible standards would have distilled out by now. Yea, I know, government has been around a lot longer...<br> <br> This is a question from total ignorance, since I haven't ever used a web based email client, but doesn't the gmail or yahoo system have an "attach" option?<br> <br> Ron N<br> </blockquote></div><br></div></div>