On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:10:07 -0700 "H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:55:48PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > For my usual mailboxes though, I prefer typical GUI desktop clients. > > Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to find one that I like. > > Maybe you should write one in D. ;-) >
Heh, I'd love to, and I've even had that in mind for some time now (a few years). Problem is there's a *lot* of things I'd like to do, and all on top of other things I *have* to do ;) My current pet project ATM is a blog^H^H^H^H*article* system using vibe.d and Adam's HTML DOM (the combination of which are making development a *breeze*...in the rare cases I actually get to work on it). It won't be as fully-featured as wordpress or tangocms, but at least it'll do what I want, how I want, and won't go anywhere near PHP ;) > For one thing, having a MIME library in D would be awesome. > Maybe I'm just not awake enough yet but: What exactly would it do? Just be a mapping of "file extension" <--> "mime type"? > > I'm a big Opera fan, because Opera lets me configure stuff to work the > way I want it to. But I never use it for mail (I don't like using a > browser as an MUA, I think that's just feeping creaturism). And recent > releases of Opera are starting to show signs of instability and > excessive memory consumption, unlike earlier releases, and I'm > starting to wonder if I might want to switch to Firefox... > Newer Operas also got rid of the "native-ish" theme, which is why I'm not upgrading past v10. It may seem trivial, but skinned apps *really* bug me. I find the UIs in the FF4-onward to be completely intolerable. Even FF3's UI was god-awful, and then they managed to make it worse with 4 by going all "Chrome-envy". > ... but if it's that unconfigurable, then Opera might just be the > lesser of two evils. I have to admit that I've tried using Firefox as > my primary browser before, and I didn't like it. It's too IE-like for > my tastes. > That was probably a long time ago, as FF is basically a Chrome knock-off now. Then again, so is IE now... Speaking of, I wrote a "not-a-blog" post about these browser issues just a few months back: <http://semitwist.com/articles/article/view/the-perfect-browser-is-easy!-yet-it-still-doesn-t-exist...> (Yea, TangoCMS uses loooong urls.) > The result is that people revert to using table-based formatting and Hey, I *like* table-based formatting :). Beats the hell out of trying to kluge together sane layouts/flowing with CSS. And nobody's ever going to convince me that HTML isn't the presentation layer.
