Okay, everyone, if you've got a minute take one last quick look at the
v6 web templates at http://mail.hksi.net before I make them available.
The username is "demo", the password is "blue". Hard to believe I've
been at this for over 10 days now... sorry for the wait, but I hope it
will be worth it to you.
Additional features since last review:
- SPELL CHECKER THAT WORKS! (And doesn't break Netscape or Macs.)
It's an ActiveX component, so only MSIE4+/PC users will see
the link underneath the compose message text area. Working on
detection of browsers with Netscape ActiveX plug-in. Oh, and you
have to have MSWord installed, since that's the engine it uses.
- All user options are in one nice little pop-down in upper right
corner
OF EACH SCREEN! (Admin options will be in the same pop-down for
users with admin privileges.)
- Read mail screen now displays message in a nice monospaced-font
on both PCs and Macs
- Neater address book at top of compose screens, with link
directly to address book
- Neater attachments input form at bottom of compose screens.
- Neater search input form
- Mucho more code cleaning and streamlining and consolidating. The
zipped version of everything is down from 900kb to 270kb or so.
Trashed about 50 unused GIFs. A cleansing experience.
- Universal color scheme is changeable by modifying just one file.
- Fixed the bug where two Help windows would open when Help clicked.
Remaining issues (HEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPP!):
- IE on Macintosh users cannot reply to/fwd/delete their messages.
That's bad. For now, we're telling 'em to use Netscape if they
don't already. Waiting on a fix from Ipswitch, but not apneic
about it. Problem is a Javascript reserved word conflict with the
CGI.
- Admin setting of News option results in a broken link, and no news
gets set. Can't even make this one work from the IMail Admin on
the server, so maybe something is broken in v6? I'm not a good
person to ask on this, because I've never used the News feature.
- I'd like to have an option to mark a message back to "Un-Read"
status, but looking through the code docs hasn't helped. If
you're listening, Ipswitch, do we have access to change the
message status back to unread?
Well, that's about all I can think of right now. Thanks again for all
your help and comments on this project... I'm looking forward to
wrapping it up.
Ron Allen Hornbaker
Humankind Systems, Inc.
Kansas City
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