That's a matter of perspective. Sure the email client is somethig
completely different than a web page in a browser tab, but I think I'm not
the only one who would like to have their email client in a new tab right
next to their open webpages. I, for my self, am used to tabbed browsing in
such an extent that when I receive a new email in seamonkey I go:
- ok, now, where's that webpage I want to copy something from? Oh, it's in
a new window. Ok, click there. Now click on the webpage's tab. Information
copied.
- now where's that email I am writing? I see, different window again.
Switch & paste.
That's just my personal habits, and of course it requires only a little of
concentration to realise that the email is actually in a different window,
but when you try to do things fast and you do not have a lot of time, you
rely on your personal habits, preferences and experiences to perform
specific actions to complete your task. So many times that I work in
seamonkey and have 15 tabs open, I spend a couple of seconds looking at
them and searching for "that email tab" before realising "aha, it's a
different window".
I would not be asking to implement this "out of the blue", but seeing that
entering chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul in the address bar in a
new tab actually opens the email client that partially *works*, but
crashes upon many common actions, made me thinking that maybe it's not
that difficult to implement from the development perspective / in terms of
code. Maybe there are few places in the code of the messenger that rely on
"i'm sure i'm in a window, so call it's xxx method / perform action x". Of
course I have never seen mozilla rendering engine and/or any part of the
seamonkey code, so that's why I would like to hear some pros and cons of
the concept, in terms of code / development costs and not personal
preferences whether this feature is practical or not.
I realise that there are many more important goals in the seamonkey
project than this one, but it's just a feature request that I think many
people (including me) would find convenient.
Thank you
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:12:47 +0200, Ray_Net
<[email protected]> wrote:
Viliam Kubis wrote:
Of course as an option, not fixed for everybody. You could choose
whether to open the mail client in the traditional way (new window) or
in new tab.
This look inconsistent.
Mail is not another web page, it's completely different.
Opera is wrong - he mixed two different things: an object and a
collection of objects ...
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