Hello,
See comments inline.
Mimi Yin wrote:
In our 1.0 Email Plan design session today, we decided to explore how
we might be able to squeeze in incremental support for rich-text
editing in the Previews/1.0 timeframe. We are still not aiming to
provide a composition environment that replaces people's existing
email clients. Email composition capabilities today are such that many
people have replaced word processing apps with email clients when
composing documents and long messages. Chandler desktop is not going
to try to become the UI where people create documents.
Instead, we're looking to see how far we can push rich-text
functionality in support of lightweight task and calendaring
workflows. e.g. How much rich-text support do users need in order to
write-up a brief meeting agenda or type up next actions?
*Displaying rich-text messages properly.*
Questions: Do we need to be able to pop-up windows? resize images?
What if the message is wider than our detail view Notes field, which
given how narrow it is, will be very likely.
Although I am not a huge fan of pop up windows I don't feel our current
detail view size is realistic for a usable email experience. I would
strongly suggest that either the UI layout resize itself for email
composition and reading or we employ a popup window at least for
composition.
*Support for rich-text editing. Includes ability to manipulate*
+ Font-face
+ Font-size
+ Font-color
+ Font-style: Bold, Italics, Underline
+ Secondary Font-styles: Strikethrough, Superscript, Subscript
+ Alignment: Left, Center, Right
*Support for drag and drop and in-line, WYSIWYG manipulation of
images, media, attachments in the body of the message.*
*Support for independent windows to display individual items. Window
elements include:*
+ Toolbar: Reply, Reply all, Forward, Send/Update
+ Rich text editing toolbar
+ Mark-up bar
+ Detail view fields: Addressing fields, Title, Location, Date/time
fields, Notes, Labels
*Questions*
+ What's missing from this list?
+ What kind of Wx work is involved in supporting the features
enumerated above?
Mimi
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