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Summit

August 5th, 2008 Posted in Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird

I think that was an excellent summit that we just had. Well done to all the organisers.

For me, it was a time to meet many of the people I have worked with over the internet and discuss the progress of Thunderbird, and ideas relating to its future.

With the power cut on Thursday morning, we were left without power for the “Messaging Futures” discussion, we therefore used the whiteboard to put loads of sticky notes on (below), and I scribbled down notes.

Messaging Futures Whiteboard

I’ve now posted the notes I took on the session page on the wiki, we’ll probably move these somewhere more appropriate at a later date. They are mainly bullet points, but hopefully understandable and should be a good memory jogger later on.

  1. 3 Responses to “Summit”

  2. By JoeS on Aug 6, 2008

    Wow, that was a lot of sticky notes. The one that jumps out at me is:
    Be able to open background tabs in browser - don’t bring the browser forward

    I take this to mean “view this message with the full resources of the browser”

    If so, I totally agree.

  3. By Standard8 on Aug 6, 2008

    @JoeS Actually, “don’t bring the browser forward” I think meant just that - be able to open links in the browser, but don’t force a context switch.

    Various discussions have mentioned that folks would like to open things in the background (because they want to look at it in a while), but they want to finish doing what they are doing already.

    I’m not sure what you mean by “view this message with the full resources of the browser”. If you mean things like back/forward, then surely, that’s just a variant of SeaMonkey? We already have the vast majority of the capability of the browser.

  4. By JoeS on Aug 7, 2008

    My main interest in TB is creating mini-webpages mostly in newsgroups, but some mail (similar to newsletters) This was a very active “community” a few years back but has fallen off due to the limited html composer/editor UI, but even if you fight through those problems, the main differences between viewing in TB vs. Firefox are:
    Limited plugin support (many crash)
    Limited javascript support (security over-rides)
    Limited CSS support (styled background -image ignored, for one)
    All of the above would go away if a message could be “viewed in a browser window”
    I think that what folks want are messages that are more “blog like” and a browser window would do the trick.

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