V-webmail 2.018th May 2005, 1321 views ))
Many people will be aware that I used to develop a rather nice webmail application which went by the name of V-webmail. It was, if I do say so myself, one of the best available and led the way in terms of advanced UI features, most of which took advantage of the possibilities of DHTML. Well, I've been playing around recently with more UI related widgets and decided to see what could be done in this area with regards to webmail. The result is the contents of the screenshot to the right. Now this is no crappy ass mockup, this actually works (mostly). Meaning that the folders you see are the folders belonging to the IMAP account, as are the messages. The preview pane is fake at the moment though. The menu and button bars all function as in windows (ie. you get raised mouseover effects etc.). Those are the graphics from Thunderbird, and are in use purely for the demonstration. Pretty neat huh? (And yes, the entire window shown is a browser window...) Top 10 referrering pages
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Author: Chris Padfield
Posted: 19th May 2005 00:51 Looking very nice Richard! When do we get to play with it?!
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Author: Alan Knowles
Posted: 19th May 2005 08:14 I would have gone with XUL, would probably save >50% on the development time, along with not having to bother messing around with javascript bugs in IE...
QuoteAnd the result looks nicer as well. ;)
Author: David
Posted: 19th May 2005 08:47 Looking nice indeed! Could you elaborate on the (structure of) the widget you used? Does it need to refresh the whole frame when sorting the datagrid for example?
Quote@Alan XUL has some nice advantages but keeping it more cross browser is a good point as well.
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 19th May 2005 12:27 David:
Quote> Looking nice indeed! Could you elaborate on the > (structure of) the widget you used? Does it > need to refresh the whole frame when sorting > the datagrid for example? Nope, all sorting is done client side using js. When selected, the message is loaded into the preview pane. > @Alan > XUL has some nice advantages but keeping it > more cross browser is a good point as well. Well actually, the grid I wrote is MSIE only, so there won't be any Mozilla support if it does go any further.
Author: David
Posted: 19th May 2005 12:36 Richard Heyes:
Quote> Well actually, the grid I wrote is MSIE only, > so there won't be any Mozilla support if it > does go any further. Are you using behaviours, or is it a small javascript compatibility issue? How much did you seperate the widget set from the logic?
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 19th May 2005 12:42 David:
Quote> Richard Heyes: > > Well actually, the grid I wrote is MSIE > only, > > so there won't be any Mozilla support if it > > does go any further. > > Are you using behaviours, or is it a small > javascript compatibility issue? How much did > you seperate the widget set from the logic? It's all javascript, and the widget is a standalone JS class, so it could be ported to Mozilla, I just can't be bothered. :-/
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 19th May 2005 17:22 Chris Padfield:
Quote> Looking very nice Richard! When do we get to > play with it?! Well, it'll be a while yet. Assuming I do go ahead with it at all.
Author: Helmut Tessarek
Posted: 2nd June 2005 09:46 I just want to know, where to get V-Webmail.
QuoteThe http://www.v-webmail.co.uk/ site is down and cannot find a place where to get it.
Author: Raffi
Posted: 2nd June 2005 11:00 Hi Richard
QuoteThe new V-Webmail Screenshot looks great! When can we test the first beta? Best Regards Raffi
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 27th August 2005 13:53 Nope, V-webmail isn't currently available.
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Author: Rob Juurlink
Posted: 26th January 2006 00:20 > where to get V-Webmail, any versions after navy
QuoteRecently V-webmails license is rebranded to the GPL license. See for details about the project http://www.v-webmail.org
Author: pragya
Posted: 24th April 2006 08:54 Hello,
QuoteI want to create a new account on v-webmail. Is it possible to create an account when using v-webmail to create a new application ? Please reply asap. Thanks Pragya
Author: Mark
Posted: 1st November 2007 14:44 The new version certainly looks good. I have read comments on sourceforge whether it will be possible to add plugin functionality.
QuoteI quite liked squirrel mail but v-w is quicker and less fiddly. Any updates re: v-webmail 2?
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 1st November 2007 15:56 Mark:
Quote> The new version certainly looks good. I have > read comments on sourceforge whether it will be > possible to add plugin functionality. > I quite liked squirrel mail but v-w is quicker > and less fiddly. > > Any updates re: v-webmail 2? Sorry, won't be happening now.
Author: jann
Posted: 14th December 2007 17:32 I use v webmail 1.6.4 (latest from SF.net) on my site and i really like it. it's _much_ better and nicer than every other pop3 webmailer i tried. Thanks a lot for this great application, Richard!
QuoteHowever, when replying to html-only emails, vwebmail regularly screws up. meaning that the replies i send arrive as pure HTML code at the recipient (which most people cant or are too lazy to read). Seems to me like vwebmail composes the mail body in HTML but 'forgets' setting the HTML tags in the header, causing the HTML enabled mails to be displayed as text-only...
Author: Jack
Posted: 15th January 2008 16:29 Hey,
Quotedo you have plans for continuing (or releasing an alpha or beta) vwebmail 2.0 any time in the future? Or is this a dead project already? Also, since vwebmail.org is dead, is there any current site for this project?
Author: Richard Heyes
Posted: 15th January 2008 16:33 > do you have plans for continuing (or releasing
Quote> an alpha or beta) vwebmail 2.0 any time in the > future? Or is this a dead project already? No, and I guess it's dead. FWIW I still use it to read my mail when I'm away from home. > Also, since vwebmail.org is dead, is there any > current site for this project? Nope.
Author: j
Posted: 23rd January 2008 21:02 Thanks for the reply, Richard.
QuoteThat's a pity to hear :/ Any chance on fixing some of the 1.64 bugs (like emails being sent as pure text (but with html code in them) when replying to html-only emails)? |
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Posted: 19th May 2005 00:00
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