Matthew Thomas wrote:
> I apologize for disagreeing.
Forgiven ;-P
> Let's say you have a folder on your hard drive which contains only
> subfolders. (Compare: a mail account which contains mail folders.) What
> does Windows Explorer do, when you select this top-level folder? It
> shows the folders in the right pane. As it should.
IIRC, it either always or never shows the folders in the right pane.
> What would happen if Windows Explorer was designed by Mozilla Mail/News
> people?
It would be dog-slow, because I'd use the Mozilla RDF tree-widget? ;-P
> Well, in right pane you'd probably have links to `Create a new
> folder', `Create a new file', `Go to the parent folder', `Change my
> Explorer preferences', etc, duplicating buttons in the toolbar. Just as
> useless as Account Central in Mozilla.
Note that the AccountCentral pretty much duplicates the OE startpage.
> If offline mode is well-implemented, then using IMAP offline makes just
> as much sense as using POP offline.
Depends on what you mean with "sense". IMAP offline works with a
*replication*, POP offline with the original msg store.
>> No, you cannot trust the offline/online state.
>
> Then why do we have it at all?
I don't know. For notebook users?
>> - You have no way to reliably figue out, if a connection to the
>> Internet exists. The user has to set the state manually.
>> - I left Mailnews while I was online. I left it in online mode. Later,
>> when I am offline, I start Mailnews. online mode persisted, so
>> Mailnews tries to get mail. Error.
>> ...
>
>
> Internet Explorer is smart enough to work out that you are offline, and
> ask you if you want to go online.
No, it can't. No way. (IIRC, I explained why on .ui a few days ago.)
I guess, it works, if
- the users uses the Windows DUL or
- told MSIE that he is connected to the Internet all the time
but that are special cases.
> Why can't Mozilla do this?
Because MSIE can't do it either.
