Hi Kevin, Thanks for your information.
> 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. I can't agree with this. No Mac support means decreased business. All of our major customers have a Mac population. Please ask your developers, if the WebMail works running on OS10 with eg. safari. ============================================ Am Samstag, 5. November 2005 um 15:18 schrieben Sie: > 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. 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