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It's interesting, but not very deep in terms of functionality. The main exhibits here are the split panel view and the table view. Both are OK, but these prob
by pak 17y ago
It's interesting, but not very deep in terms of functionality.
The main exhibits here are the split panel view and the table view. Both are OK, but these problems have already been solved many times by ExtJS, Dojo, and various jQuery plugins, most of which implement many more difficult features like sorting, searching, editing, and saving state.
All else to be seen here is the meticulously reproduced skin with CSS and background images.
Things I would have been excited to see, because they are not yet well-solved amongst JS frameworks: tokenizable editable text fields, like the real Mail.app's To: field, attachments using HTML5 D&D, a quickly-searchable inbox and a drag & drop sortable treelist view for the mailboxes.
- boucher 17y agoI actually think it shows a lot of promise. Though it is reasonably limited, a lot of what it does do it does well. For example, it doesn't have the extremely common problem of every piece of text being selectable, and often that selection fundamentally breaking other interactions like drag and drop.
- necubi 17y agoDisabling text selection is actually really simple. All you need to do is apply user-select: none (currently available as -webkit-user-select and -moz-user-select) to the element.