Open Source AJAX Webmail

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 13, 2005 @02:12AM from the future-of-web-design dept.

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."

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Cross-browser? by dascandy · 2005-10-13 02:20 · Score: 2, Funny

The big question is: Does it run on Lynx and Links?
1. Re:Cross-browser? by Princeofcups · 2005-10-13 02:46 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  > Actually that is a good question. AJAX is great but it needs to gracefully fall back to solid useable HTML for clients that can't handle
  > javascript or whatever.
  
  And they also need to fall back to printed paper for people without computers. And spoken word for people who can't read.
  
  Javascript is an accepted WWW standard. There is no reason for any app developer to not use javascript to his heart's content.
  
  jfs
  
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One comment and slashdotted! by sootman · 2005-10-13 02:20 · Score: 4, Funny

A new record?

Free, open-source AJAX webmail--it seems we've discovered the secret formula to get slashdotters to read articles!

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Irony by karvind · 2005-10-13 02:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Does anyone else find it ironic ? The contact email address is : roundcube@AJAXgmail.comREMOVEAJAX
Re:Zimbra by Red+Flayer · 2005-10-13 02:31 · Score: 2, Funny

"Ajax is the first genuinely new thing I can think of this century."

Wow, that's a hell of a thinking block... I've managed to have several new ideas since 1999. :)

"Quick, better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches, slowly crushed to death--helpless against the hulls in the bloody press--by far inferior men!"

Telamonian Ajax, The Iliad, Homer

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Call me old fashioned... by WhoDey · 2005-10-13 02:35 · Score: 5, Funny

...but am I the only one who still prefers pine?
1. Re:Call me old fashioned... by TCM · 2005-10-13 03:29 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You misspelled Mutt.
  
  HTH. HAND.
  
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Re:Inconceivable! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-13 02:52 · Score: 1, Funny

Ajax is the first genuinely new thing I can think of this century.

<inigo-montoya>You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.</inigo-montoya>
Re:Zimbra by qray · 2005-10-13 03:08 · Score: 2, Funny

New? I remember my grandmother using it clean her sink.
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Re:Zimbra by hey · 2005-10-13 03:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Good luck changing the name of AJAX to REST.
Too Many Users! by cbovasso · 2005-10-13 03:23 · Score: 5, Funny

From the Demo:

Too many users!
Please check back later!

I love how simple it is to navigate! The features leave something to be desired though. Hey check me out, I just wrote a CNet review!

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Re:AJAX is a retarded term by Gigs · 2005-10-13 03:24 · Score: 2, Funny

How about "Javascript", since that's all it is?
It's technology that already had a name and doesn't need a new one.

And why not call P2P FTP cause thats what it is...
And IM is just email...
And cars are really just horseless carriages...

Now speakin of horses, get off the high one you are on and move on.
If you don't like ajax go ahead and call it Javascript XMLHttpRequest objects or whatever floats your large water displacing transportation vessel (Boat for those that can stand short easy to use references to new techology!).

We all know that you've been using it since dipers were nothing more that squares of cloth and only men were allowed to use computers, and you can continue living life knowing you are superior to the rest of us that call it Ajax.

Now now... don't cry.. heres a Kleenex... I mean facial tissue too dry your eyes.