web access non-withstanding, you'd be making a leap of faith to believe that the client is 100% trustworthy and that encryption is actually happening. at some point you have to make a decision as to whether or not you trust the entity (dropbox, google, or anybody else). if you don't, you should use something like truecrypt between you and the service.
all arguments made against dropbox apply to your gmail attachments, gmail mail, google docs, etc.