On Thu, March 30, 2006 08:31, Marc Groot Koerkamp wrote: > 1) What is the advantage of AJAX above normal templates;
I'd see these advantages: - Drag&Drop functionality for messages - Right-Click menus for folder management and email management - Look&Feel closer to that of a normal app (i.e. drop down menus and so on) All of these _should_ be possible without AJAX I guess, although it'd probably be easier to do them with AJAX. > 2) Why do you thing 1) is an advantage; Drag&Drop is obvious I believe: It's a standard way of dealing with files, folders, messages and whatnot. Plus it's a lot easier at least for me :) Right-Click functionality: Same thing. It's a pain in the butt to go to the folder management and mess around there, especially since the management screen is not terribly intuitive. Look&Feel: Well, that's a personal thing. I'm getting tired of users asking "How do I do..." questions. Tired to the point of telling them to bugger off. > 3) What is the form of the XML structure SquirrelMail should provide No idea. I claim not to know anything about programming, and I am not even lying when I say that I don't know the first thing about XML. > Things I personally think AJAX could be usefull is the following: > * update seen/total message count mailbox tree > * retrieval of mailbox headers for mailbox display > * retrieval of message headers and displayable message body for message > display (read_body) > > In other words, only the dynamic parts. Pretty much agreed. J ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
