Brad Rhine wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Joe Strout wrote:
>
>> But it's made me wonder... would there be any interest in a few of us
>> coming together and writing an open-source email client in RB?
>
> Yes. Definitely. Most of the pieces are already there.
As I understand it, RB doesn't have an "inline" ability in a text field
to do something like spell checking on the fly (feature request?)
Wouldn't a lot of the features similar to Apple Mail require that kind
of functionality? The latest version (or so I've heard rumor) has the
ability to extract something like a meeting date and subject, click a
button, and it will automatically add it as a notice in iCal, for
example. It already ties Mail to things like iChat for communicating
immediately with senders who are online when you read their message.
>> I guess the chief one would be handling HTML mail. I don't have much
>> faith left in the HTMLViewer control. We could parse the HTML
>> ourselves and display messages that are simple styled text messages
>> just fine, but it will probably break down when you get one of those
>> advertisements that's fancy HTML full of images and whatnot.
>
> When wielded properly, the HTMLViewer is great. I use it in a couple
> of projects and have not encountered all that many issues. For simple
> display of HTML mail (in which clicks on external links would
> presumably be passed off to the default browser), I think it would
> suffice.
Or don't use HTML :-)
I forget the format Apple mixes in...it was supposed to be a format that
will "re-flow" text to appropriate spacing no matter on what you're
viewing. I.e., I send you an Apple mail message and you get it on your
cellphone, it will wrap and quote appropriately for your small screen.
Get it on a system with a widescreen display, it'll fill the screen.
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