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Open Source AJAX Webmail

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:Cross-browser? by narrowhouse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Re:Buggy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the demo, if you click on a message in the inbox it gets selected. How TF do you read it?

    Double click.

    It's not so much buggy as it needs some serious HCI help. Web applications should NEVER require double clicks, and even in regular applications they should be used only in very specific circumstances.

    On the bright side, the application is very pretty. (Which is more than can be said for other OSS Webmail like SquirrelMail.)