On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:03AM +0000, Paul L. Allen wrote: > > > Not only that, most of the new > > > functionality, which is in demand, is missing from your implementation. > > > > When you say something like that, perhaps you could reference an > > explicit list of those things which you think are missing? > > They are listed in the horrible readme (if he thinks that is good web > design then I am worried).
Oh I see what you mean: "new functionality already in sqwebmail is missing from riwos". I originally read it as "there are new functions which are missing from sqwebmail which are also missing from riwos" > Exchange allows vacation messages (done > sensibly, not the qmailadmin/autoresponder broken way). Now that I *strongly* disagree with. Exchange's autoresponders are totally broken. Auto-replies are sent to mailing list messages; and replies are sent to the From: header and not the envelope-sender (Return-Path:). I do auto-responders using an LDAP attribute and exim, by the way. Users can't use sqwebmail to set them, so they have to go in through our database 'self-care' interface. > > Riwos' combined folder/message view > > Dunno about that. I went to his page, skimmed through it and didn't see > any obvious info about the test account. Yes it was not obvious from the given link, you have to click something like "home page" then "test it" which takes you to http://riikari.net/cgi-bin/test.cgi > > and the clean templates without rounded corners are two > > very big improvements IMO. > > You, sir, are a techy. I am, but that's an orthogonal issue. Hard-coding this design in the HTML is very poor, and more importantly, the existing design does not allow the colours of the boxes to be changed in the stylesheet; you are stuck with Laura Ashley grey and blue. I have patched the templates to allow those colours to be changed in the stylesheet, but those patches have not made it into the source distribution. There's no way I will let our users touch the HTML itself; it would lock us in to one version of sqwebmail and make it impossible to upgrade in future without manually tweaking *all* their templates to match. > > I would drop sounds entirely though; that's just an annoyance and a waste > > of code. > > Riwos has sounds? I am glad I didn't find the test account. Seriously, > I can see some people liking them. But they'd have to be something you > could enable or disable as a preference. You can (and it's off by default). But it's an unnecessary option IMO; it simply shouldn't be there in the first place. Smacks of "hey I'm clever, I can code HTML which makes sounds in your browser". Like all those old Flash-based websites which were packed-full of animation which made it completely impossible to view the actual content. Regards, Brian.
