Since this is a mozilla forum, I'll be using references to bugs a lot in the discussion below go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org and type in the bug number to get there (sorry if I'm insulting, but you don't appear to be very involved with the mozilla project ;)
Kenneth Pardue wrote: > will the future NS/Mozilla > work with the mail notification on the Windows XP user login screen > (where it says a user has x number of messages on y account). I read > somewhere that Windows lets people add to this functionality, so maybe > Mozilla/NS could? I haven't seen this, can't find it in bugzilla. If you want this feature, feel free to file a bug on it. I don't have winXP and don't know what you're talking about or I'd do the filing myself. > In mail, will it inform me that I have message in the taskbar? Will it > be an email icon or a little green arrow on the Netscape quicklaunch > icon? How will it work exactly? Stay there until all my messages are > read, go away once I open Netscape Mail, etc.? This really hasn't been discussed extensively to my knowledge, though I am interested in it. The appropriate bug number is bug 18729, there's a lot of jargon thrown around in there, but you can see where they discussed these very issues. If you have something you "really want to see" then get a post in that bug. > Will it function > correctly when all my browser/mail windows are closed? That is, when > everything is closed still check all my accounts every few minutes, > download the message, and display a mail icon (I have a cable connection > so I don't mind it checking it every few minutes 24 hours a day). I'm guessing yes. I've discussed ways of working around this now and HellCowboy over on #mozillazine and he recommends a program called traymin which you can find at http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,a%253D9149,00.asp I haven't gotten a chance to test it, but it will at least play the sound when you get new mail even when there's no window on the taskbar. > Will newsgroups allow to you watch a thread, being able to highlight it? > I noticed that Netscape seems to automatically check the newsgroups and > download headers when the mail program is launched, will it highlight > the newsgroup if there are new messages to the watched thread (again, > not to toot the Devil's horn with OE). There isn't anything exactly like this, but you can (as mentioned in another post) give the thread a label to make it easy to find. > I probably shouldn't say too many of my other quirks about the mail > program because I've occasionally looked at the updates on the > mozilla.org site and there's always TONS of bugs fixed in the mail dept. > (no pun intended)... I'll just hope that everything else gets cleaned up > in the end. I hope to be able to search the headers/names without moz crashing. :] > Will there (finally) be some themes coming out more often after 1.0? > Maybe it's me, but the modern color scheme looks kinda drab compared to > the high contrasting colors of XP. The world of themes is a constantly shifting one at the moment as everything gets cleaned up for the final push to 1.0, everything in that area changes daily, so who wants to see their hard work obsoleted in a day? I do have a theme in the works, but am waiting for everything to stop changing before I implement it, and I'm sure others are as well. > <snip netscape stuff> Mozilla has no control over what goes on in Netscape with this stuff, so I can't say anything about it. > Will it be able to integrate all of the streaming players, Real, Windows > Media, or whatever. It already does quicktime rather well, doesn't it? Again, I realize your concern, but this won't happen until mozilla/NS6 gets more maket share. The companies that make these are in control over this, not mozilla. > Will there be a way to lock the width of the tabs pane? One of the > things that annoys me is that it is awkward to use (so usually I don't. > If I click on it and hit the wrong angle, I move the layout width or > miss the incredibly small hit area and mess up my layout and have to fix > it. This is easily solveable with the <F9> key, just leave the sidebar open and hit <F9> to open/close. > Um... I think that's about all of the questions I have. I know most of > the work now is on fixing what's broken and not adding new features. > I've just been sticking with the Netscape 6 project since Preview > Release 1 and I'm getting a little anxious to get this awesome browser I > was promised. Heck, I wouldn't mind paying for it and reimbursing the > programmers if the features were there. I'm not anti-Netscape or > anti-Microsoft, I just want a better browsing experience than both offer > at present. I'll be honest though, I'm quite anxious to see the release > of Netscape 6.3, or, even more so, 6.5. Good day! You may want to put that cable modem to use and download either a mozilla milestone or a nightly, 0.9.8 is looking great and is considerably better than the 0.9.4 release that NS6.2 is built on. I've completely changed my browsing habits since the introduction of tabs, it's a really fantastic feature and I hear that Windows XP theme stuff is cool (classic gets itself to look just like your windowsXP theme, it's really neat). You are correct when you say they're mostly working on fixing what's broken than on adding more to the mess, though there are always features being tacked onto the whole, mostly small things that just make the program a little better to use. I think everybody here will agree with you that they want a better browser. > Thanks guys and gals! > Best regards, > Kenneth > > P.S. Oh yeah while I'm at it, I've heard mention of a big "favicon.ico > issue" I know favicons are the little graphics that appear next to the > address bar, but what is the issue exactly? The debate revolves around whether to fetch the little graphic like IE does when it files bookmarks (by asking for a file that may or may not exist at a certain location) or by having the site owner explicitly tell the browser where the file is located. This is more significant than with IE because mozilla asks for the file very frequently in order to show it on the urlbar rather than just for bookmarks.
