[dev] another AJAX based webapp...

[Marc Jauvin]

Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at mail.curecanti.org> wrote:

> And in the interest of actually adding something to this thread... a
> few additional comments.  I definitely am of the belief that the
> technology tends to be overused - sort of a "let's use ajax everywhere
> because it is cool" instead of "where would ajax improve the
> look/feel/UI experience of the particular application/page".  That's
> why I personally think some sort of slow rollout of ajax features would
> be useful, but trying to convert horde into a full ajax app doesn't
> make sense.

Well said, I agree with that.

> that being said, i think a goal for Horde 3.1 (or 3.2) could be to
> implement ajax in the menubar - this is a location where ajax
> functionality would be useful, faster, and clean.  For imp I could see
> ajax being useful to automatically update message lists and the folder
> listing.

"automatic update of message lists and the folder listing"

Those are exactly the things I think would really make Horde feel a lot 
more like a local application. There could also be some use for the 
email address expansion in the compose dialog.


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