Patent ID: 8176435

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: displaying, on a multi-touch input device, a plurality of content areas for an email messaging system, each content area associated with a respective first amount of text, wherein each of the plurality of content areas is displayed with a respective initial viewable amount of text that is a subset of the respective first amount of text; receiving an on-screen pinch gesture for expanding a size of each of the content areas, the on-screen pinch gesture being associated with a first location and a second location, the second location being different from the first location on the multi-touch input device; and for each of the plurality of content areas: expanding a respective size of the respective content area based on the on-screen pinch gesture; and displaying an increased viewable amount of text in the respective expanded content area based on the expanded size of the content area, wherein the increased viewable amount of text is a larger subset of the respective first amount of text than the initial viewable amount of text, and a character size of the increased viewable amount of text is substantially equal to a character size of the original viewable amount of text.