Open Source AJAX Webmail

scrasher writes "It seems AJAX webmail is all the craze. Right on the heels of both Microsoft and Yahoo launching beta versions of their new AJAX webmail clients, an Open Source startup RoundCube has released an alpha of a GPLed AJAX webmail client. While there are still many features missing (like search!), the demo they have is completely cross-browser compliant and overall very impressive."

Comments

Re:Zimbra

[Cally]

Oh FFS, what is this, pedant's corner? Of course Javascript and the DOM aren't new, but [blatant abuse snipped]* notice that no-one was really using it until Google Maps first came along (was it earlier this year, or last year?) Now suddenly you can't move for startups using, yes, AJAX technologies. What's new isn't the libraries, it's the use to which it is being put. "IT" meaning AJAX, meaning (as the acronym says) *THE COMBINATION OF PRE-EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES IN A NOVEL COMBINATION*.

Pardon my gnarliness, I had to get up at 6am this morning to sit through 90 minutes of Powerpoint and marketing at a "Breakfast briefing" and I seem to have picked up a light touch of misanthropy. If you can call day-dreaming about slowly lowering shapemakers who burble about Flash into a dip of boiling polyethylene.

(* removed: [if you pull your heads out of your arses for a moment you would] )

Re:Buggy

[DoktorSeven]

If you want to deal with the nightmare that is the Gimp GUI, more power to you. BUT, professional users prefer Photoshop. Your comment is based on an irrational hate for Adobe.

If you want to deal with an overpriced piece of software whose only difference from The Gimp is MDI vs. a few floating windows, and a few options here and there, more power to you, BUT, people who aren't elitist assholes -- people who think paying $700 for software (or pirating it) means they get superior software -- prefer The Gimp. Your comment is based on an irrational hate for open source software.