Monday, January 10, 2000, 1:13:39 PM, Leif wrote:
LG>> - Is there a planned port to Linux?
> We are planning to make the Linux version when Delphi for Linux will
> be available (this year, as promised by Inprise, Inc).
One good thing to hear.
[regarding a built-in news reader]
LG>> Why did you decide to include it in TB as opposed to a completely
LG>> separate application?
> I think that extra size speaks for itself :-) It is not a separate
> application - it is actually an extension of existing features. News
> groups will be just another kind of folder, accordingly to the new
> "ideology".
Oh, this is bad. This speaks very badly for TB! production if this is
true. Effective newsreading is completely different than effective email
reading. Why they share common technical specifications and appear, on the
surface, to also share a lot in how they are processed it simply is not the
case. All I see this is leading heavily into code bloat, especially with the
ominous reference to "ideology."
LG>> - Will version 2.0 fully support HTML both in sending,
> Yes.
Very bad.
LG>> and viewing href'd images?
> This will be possible when we will write our own Web browser - I
> guess, this is a topic for another interview, but you should wait for
> it for several months :-)
Very, VERY bad.
LG>> - Will v2.0 support hooks for virus scanning attachments to messages?
> Yes.
*VERY* Bad.
LG>> - Will IMAP(4) support be improved ??
> Absolutely. This is another big improvement planned for version 2.
One of two rays of light.
The rest of it, stuff that I snipped, wasn't too good or bad to comment
on. The PGP stuff was good to hear even though my personal question wasn't
answered. The over virtualization of everything looks like TB! is going to go
from stable to unstable in a heartbeat. Add to that the looks of them wanting
to take TB! outside the realm of an e-mail client and it is very grim looking
indeed. My impression from this interview is that another otherwise decent
program is about to go down the crapper. I pray that I'm wrong.
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