Hello Patrick,
Saturday, April 15, 2000, 2:10:46 AM, you wrote:
PE> hallo Christian!
PE> so do the following: talk to the guys at ritlab, help them porting,
PE> throw away (i mean FAR away) that kind of mail-client you wrote for
PE> opera (and throw that newsreader-part even further beyond the edge of
PE> this world), loosely integrate the bat into opera (no Steve, not
PE> integrate, i mean establish a connectivity interface which works in
PE> linux too (in windows it is already implemented as we know), but do
PE> so, that if you like you can tightly integrate it for set-top-boxes
PE> and you are done..
PE> do the same with xnews (the windows one http://xnews.3dnews.net/ (you
PE> see steve, i didn't attach the file! ;)
PE> but all this isn't possible with the manpower opera has. IMHO opera
PE> lacks a chief designer... they have good coders, but i cannot see a
PE> direction in interface and a vision for this browser...
PE> i did it again... please beware of the off-topic trap when
PE> answering... thanks,
Funny, there are millions of Windows programs and only a very very few
programs that really shine. The Bat! does, Xnews does, Notetab Pro
does, Irfanview does and a couple of others).
A Bat/Opera/Xnews "bundle" would be a killer. The problem we have is
that we do not get acceptance as a browser without integrated mail and
news. The word "browser" today means a program that does all this. We
have heard this from press people over and over, so to even be
considered for high ratings when software is reviewed we needed these
services (and it worked, ZDnet gave us 5 stars for the first time this
week because of added mail and news, NS 6 got 4!)
You might want to look into removing the mail dll from the Opera directory
and voila! mail is gone and The Bat! can reign alone. So you see, we
have been thinking modular.
In a perfect world the secondary services in a browser widely be optional.
We might make that happen in the final Opera 4.00 because we know that for
mail there are killer apps out there like...yes The Bat! which is
widely in use at Opera Software both in Oslo and in the US.
Slight "off topicness" here also. Bear with me! :)
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