Kenneth Pardue wrote: > Not to toot the Devil's horn too much, but will the future NS/Mozilla > work with the mail notification on the Windows XP user login screen > (where it says a user has x number of messages on y account). I read > somewhere that Windows lets people add to this functionality, so maybe > Mozilla/NS could? > It is my understanding that anything that is specific to one OS(it wouldn't even apply to all Windows) is low priority. Noone is going to cry foul if someone implements it and wants it checked in, but the 'core' developers aren't going to 'waste' time on it.
> In mail, will it inform me that I have message in the taskbar? Will it > be an email icon or a little green arrow on the Netscape quicklaunch > icon? How will it work exactly? Stay there until all my messages are > read, go away once I open Netscape Mail, etc.? Will it function > correctly when all my browser/mail windows are closed? That is, when > everything is closed still check all my accounts every few minutes, > download the message, and display a mail icon (I have a cable connection > so I don't mind it checking it every few minutes 24 hours a day). > more likely to happen, but I haven't heard anything lately, though that doesn't really mean much :) > Will newsgroups allow to you watch a thread, being able to highlight it? > I noticed that Netscape seems to automatically check the newsgroups and > download headers when the mail program is launched, will it highlight > the newsgroup if there are new messages to the watched thread (again, > not to toot the Devil's horn with OE). You can highlight threads using the 'label' feature, there is a 'watch thread' feature under the Message menu, but I am not real familiar with how it works, play around with it. > Will there (finally) be some themes coming out more often after 1.0? > Maybe it's me, but the modern color scheme looks kinda drab compared to > the high contrasting colors of XP. There is supposed to be support for XP themes when using classic in recent builds, but I don't know how it works. [snip netscape-only issues and sidebar(?) issue] > P.S. Oh yeah while I'm at it, I've heard mention of a big "favicon.ico > issue" I know favicons are the little graphics that appear next to the > address bar, but what is the issue exactly? The issue was that mozilla would automatically request <webroot>/favicon.ico if an icon wasn't linked to, it has since been disabled and Mozilla now only supports <link rel="icon" href="..." type="image/..."
