On Thu, November 29, 2012 03:01, Fredrik Jervfors wrote: >>> I wonder why the design and the functions are so “old-school” like. >>> It looks like Web 1.0 or before, but I miss some stylish new design >>> with >>> the use of AJAX and so on, like other webmailers using today. >>> >>> Is there any development going in this direction, which I missed since >>> yet? >> >> I hope not. I am very happy there is still a webmailer left which >> hasn't jumped on the 2.0/AJAX/active everything bandwagon. >> >>> Just to test, I installed the Webmailer “Roundcube” and this looks much >>> newer to me. >>> >>> It is not just me, but also my customers, to who I want to offer a >>> modern and nice looking webmailer for their websites. >> >> No one is stopping you from doing so. But please remember there >> are other users who are, for various reasons ranging from simple force >> of >> habit to actual technical limitations, quite happy to stay with the "old >> school" interface. >> >> Just install Roundcube and Squirrelmail side by side and let each >> user use the one he or she likes best. Choice is good. If Squirrelmail >> converted to the same AJAX paradigm everyone else is using it would take >> away that choice. > > The SquirrelMail approach is to detach the UI from the core functionality > so it's possible to use SquirrelMail for offering both an AJAX 2.0 UI and > a old-school HTML 4.01 UI side by side. We don't want to take that choice > away from the system administrator and his/her customers. And you you want > to have a custom-made UI you could provide it yourself as a plugin without > having to patch SquirrelMail. The same goes for a mobile UI. > > But as I wrote earlier; we started but we haven't reached the goal yet > since we have limited resources. If you know anyone who can help with > graphics, layout, JavaScript please ask them to participate. Even if we go > web 2.0 we won't leave web 1.0 behind. > > -- > Fredrik Jervfors <http://fredrik.jervfors.se/> > The SquirrelMail Project I concur that there needs to be a non-AJAX version. I just had a client who wanted us to add a download progress bar and I asked if he could guarantee everyone had Javascript on and AJAX available and he said no he couldn't and that's a small subset of our customer base. Just my 2cents worth. ------ William R. Mussatto Systems Engineer http://www.csz.com 909-920-9154 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
