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From: Martin S Taylor on 6 Aug 2010 18:31 Tim Streater wrote >> Are you interested as a user, or as a programmer? As a user, you don't >> get a choice. > > Ah, fishhooks! Is my memory failing, or did you use to get the choice in System 3 or thereabouts? MST
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 6 Aug 2010 18:41 On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 23:31:38 +0100, Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: >Tim Streater wrote >>> Are you interested as a user, or as a programmer? As a user, you don't >>> get a choice. >> >> Ah, fishhooks! > >Is my memory failing, or did you use to get the choice in System 3 or >thereabouts? I'm certain that ye olde MacOS had a control panel for blinkiness, yes. Very very early version here - http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt Cheers - Jaimie -- "other e-mail programs like Eudora are not designed to enable virus replication." Microsoft implicitly admits Outlook Express design criteria at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office/2001/virus_alert.asp (you'll have to prepend that with http://web.archive.org/web/20010413120903/ )
From: Pd on 7 Aug 2010 10:41 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > I'm trying MailForge (a Eudora replacement [1]). snippage > [1] Not sure why I'm bothering. Meantime I've written my own which I use > for all email now. You've written your own email application? -- Pd
From: Pd on 8 Aug 2010 07:49 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In article <1jmv27g.rlv4zt5y2el6N%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>, > peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > > > Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying MailForge (a Eudora replacement [1]). > > > > snippage > > > > > [1] Not sure why I'm bothering. Meantime I've written my own which I use > > > for all email now. > > > > You've written your own email application? > > Yes. I wanted to see if it was possible, using a browser and JavaScript > to present to the user, and PHP with SQLite to do the backend stuff. > There are some minor limitations to do with what JavaScript is permitted > to do, but rather to my surprise I have been able to incorporate all the > features that made Eudora (to me) the best e-mail program. Wild - so how come it takes the developers of Penelope, Mailforge, Gyazmail etc years to not arrive at the same place? Is it because your favourite features are a small subset of all Eudora features? -- Pd
From: Pd on 9 Aug 2010 06:12
Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In article <1jmwjvu.i1gfjc16nt9wN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>, > peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > > > > You've written your own email application? > > > > > > Yes. I wanted to see if it was possible, using a browser and JavaScript > > > to present to the user, and PHP with SQLite to do the backend stuff. > > > There are some minor limitations to do with what JavaScript is permitted > > > to do, but rather to my surprise I have been able to incorporate all the > > > features that made Eudora (to me) the best e-mail program. > > > > Wild - so how come it takes the developers of Penelope, Mailforge, > > Gyazmail etc years to not arrive at the same place? Is it because your > > favourite features are a small subset of all Eudora features? > > Partly. But also because: snip 12 reasons "why it's not quite 100% Eudora-replacement yet" > So lots to do yet but it's keeping me off the streets! Fair enough. I'm still impressed, both by your l33t skillz, and that Javascript is that powerful. I recently read that Javascript owes some of its parentage to Hypertalk which I really liked - perhaps I should put a bit more effort into learning it. -- Pd |