Hello Darin, Your comments are very accurate.
As much as we have standards based browsers, the standards have not fully delivered across all browsers (there are now 4-5 browsers on just windows that most IT folks would have heard of - IE, FF, Moz, NS, Opera) and definitely not across all platforms including the main ones used on the Mac (Safari, older IE). Expect for this to be even more straining with the emergence of the 7 year old AJAX (XMLHttpRequest) which first appeared in IE 5 which is now getting much more play due to Google's use of it in Google Maps and Google GMail. Here's a report from June 05 showing that 1 in 10 sites in the UK don't work correctly on anything but Win IE. "One in 10 UK websites fail to work properly on the open source Firefox web browser, a study shows." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4115806.stm But that's no excuse for Ipswitch it just means it will take a little longer to get that cross browser and cross platform/OS support. We are striving for cross browser within Windows with this release and then adding Mac shortly thereafter. We know mac users are very prevalent in the ISP/EDU space and it's just a matter of time-to-market that we are releasing IMail 2006 within a month and then adding Mac support thereafter in 2006. Bye for now, kg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail 2006 WebMail w/o Mac >First of all, I can not understand, how a web programmer is able to create html/css/dhmtl/js-code that is not mac-compatible. Because the browser rendering engines are significantly different. While Safari is bsed on Mozilla and will most likely work, IE for Mac is _very_ different from IE for Windows...especially in CSS layouts. Not having a Mac, I've found it extremely difficult to design for Mac audiences using newer layout methods, and have generally had to revert to table layouts to avoid CSS inconsistencies that would cause rendering on IE for Mac to fail miserably.... but again Safari may work fine. > Secondly, our isp customers and imail customers are living in a mixed world. This means: wintel's and mac's. Yes, but most development shops are Windows-only based. I've run into several third party web apps that could not tell me whether their products worked on a Mac because they didn't have equipment to develop or test with. We'll be buying a Mac sometime soon to better test web apps for that audience. > Today I sold a IMail subscription to an college having 4000 accounts, containing a few hundreds IMac's. Do I run in troubles now? See if it doesn't work fine in Safari. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "IMail Forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:15 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail 2006 WebMail w/o Mac Hi, Did i understand the postings correctly, that the new webmail of IMail 2006 does not work on Mac's? I really hope, this is wrong. First of all, i can not understand, how a web programmer is able to create html/css/dhmtl/js-code that is not mac-compatible. Secondly, our isp customers and imail customers are living in a mixed world. This means: wintel's and mac's. Without mac support, the customers won't move to imail 2006 at all. Today i sold a imal subscription to an college having 4000 accounts, containing a few hundreds IMac's. Do i run in troubles now? If this is really true, i would re-scedule the release date of Imail until this issue is solved. Would anybody from ipswitch confirm this issue, or better say: "It's a nasty halloween joke"?? -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 44 391 30 00 Fax: +41 44 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. NOD32 Antivirus System .:. BlueDragon .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer .:. SmarterTools -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
