> My thoughts exactly. Gmail is one of the best email clients I've used, > desktop or web.
While I will agree with the statement that gmail is one of the best email clients I have used, one of the reasons is that google has the resources to develop around all of the quirks that come with the various browsers when using js, css, etc. I love the idea of having applications like gmail, that are easy to use, and available almost anywhere with just a simple interface like a browser...but I've found that almost exclusively, only google can make really complicated applications a reality when using these methods. I've signed up for just about every online calendar in the past year (kiko, planzo, trumba, 30 boxes) in a search for one I could live with (and have finally settled on....wait for it...google calendar). The ones that relied heavily on AJAX type technologies invariably would bog down performance with the browser eating up half my memory. Some of the developers on these projects are amazing, and they can do really cool things, but they just don't have the resources to work the kind of hacks that google does. And the fact is they are hacks...really well executed hacks in some cases, but hacks none the less. And even google doesn't get it right all the time...their initial implementation of chat in gmail returned a lot of the "suckiness" to that application. And don't even try to debug your javascript while gmail is open...open up the FF javascript console sometime while you are using gmail...and watch the warnings fly by. -- Jim Wright Wright Business Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-417-2257 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240645 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
