Scott,
I realize the following questions aren't specific to performance, but
I understand that they may have something to do with the use of RDF.
Aside from the obvious thread pane problems that are being addressed
here, will this have any impact on the interaction between windows?
For example, I replied to this message here with Mozilla. Had this
been NS 4.x I would have clicked on the "Quote" icon to bring in some of
your text from the original message. Additionally, I could have
hi-lighted other messages and quoted them here as well. I really love
this feature out of NS 4.x a lot, as I personally can't stand having the
mail client on "auto-quote" all the time.
Along similar lines, when browsing through newsgroups I often double
click on a message to open it in a seperate window. From there I'll
just keep hitting the "Next" icon to read on through the thread. I
suppose I should be using Pine or something along them lines, but I
rather enjoyed this from the old NS. I would have preferred this to
always read the next message rather than the next unread one, but it
worked pretty good for me just the same.
My present understanding is that the reason these relatively minor UI
features aren't in the present Mozilla builds is due to the very modular
nature of the various parts. By moving away from RDF in the thread
pane, will this new structure enable the various components of mailnews
to better talk to eachother? It sure would be nice to see some of that
old functionality work it's way into some of the new features within
Mozilla. Just curious here if these changes might be on the road to
helping something like this happen.
Later on,
