Quoting John H. Bennett III <benne...@thebennetthome.com>:
Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slus...@horde.org>:
Quoting John H. Bennett III <benne...@thebennetthome.com>:
Hello again,
Another gripe I keep getting is the inability of the webmail
client to maintain focus while in the preview window. People
don't want to have to either double-click a message, or when in
the preview window, click on the scroll bar to scroll through a
message, they would rather be able to click on the layout view,
and once in that view, be able to use the mouse or keyboard keys
to scroll through their message. Why? Yeah, because that's what
outlook can do.
I'm up for any words or reasons I can tell my users as to why this
isn't possible with horde.
Because browser UI elements != OS UI elements.
We make use of IFRAMEs (for HTML messages) to segregate potentially
dangerous external data (message content) from the rest of the
page. IFRAMEs are handled differently by each browser. An IFRAME,
by default, has no connection/contact to the parent page. So if
you do something in the IFRAME, this has NO EFFECT on the rest of
the page.
Essentially, you can think of the message preview as a completely
separate application than IMP. We *try* to capture
clicks/keypresses inside of the IFRAME, but this is not always
possible (e.g. browser issues; for security reasons we may not be
able to precisely simulate that click in the parent page).
michael
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Michael Slusarz [slus...@horde.org]
Hi Michael,
Yes, OK, thank you for explaining, but when using Outlook Web
Access, you don't have this issue, no matter if you are using a MAC,
or Windows PC. Once you change the focus to the preview pane, you
are able to scroll with the mouse, or by using the keyboard keys. Is
this still a matter of UI elements != OS UI elements, or is MS using
some other method than what horde uses or can use?
Microsoft probably has 20 full-time engineers working on the Outlook
Web Access team. That's the difference.
michael
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Michael Slusarz [slus...@horde.org]
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