|
|
|
|
|
|
by rbanffy
812 days ago
|
|
|
I think the folder views is one of the most amazing ideas that I saw first in Windows with IE3. You don't build an e-mail client: you build a view that sees a folder full of e-mail messages (each one a file) and displays it as an e-mail reader. Add a service to send messages in your outbox and poll services to populate your inbox, a viewer and an editor for messages and you are set. As for the renderer trying to catch up, it could be implemented as something that reads and caches all required graphic resources before attempting to render to the display, so that everything appears correct the first time. As for the UI, it's fine if the current rendered uses HTML - you just build something that reads the abstract UI representation and outputs HTML for the window renderer. |
|
|
Which version of Windows?
I used IE3. It wasn't great. It came with MS Internet Mail and News.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110816052247/http://www.nwnetw...
I quite liked MSIMN, it was actually a pretty good client -- it just needed spam filtering, which it never got until it was a bloated mess.
> you build a view that sees a folder full of e-mail messages
BeOS mail did that, probably first.
But I don't remember MSIMN doing that.
It does sound just like a Maildir folder, though.
https://web.archive.org/web/19971012032244/http://www.qmail....
Maildir dates back to around the same time that Win95 was first released, and Win95 as shipped didn't have MSIMN. It had the Inbox client, designed to talk to MSN and Microsoft Mail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Mail