[dev] [commits] Horde-Hatchery branch master updated. 5d46697409298e3a520583b63170a517c8e32e53

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> commit 8771de77aeb56f74372962183ac89535882762fa
>>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at curecanti.org>
>>> Date:   Thu Sep 17 15:58:46 2009 -0600
>>>
>>>   Play around with some bordering in the dimp message list
>>>
>>>   Comments welcome.
>>
>> I like the old look a lot better. I think if there's a real call  
>> for some sort of bordering that it should just be horizontal lines,  
>> not vertical. Anything really grid-like doesn't look or feel good  
>> to me.
>
> I didn't like them much when I first implemented them.  But it is  
> growing on me.
>
> And we need something because the situations where the status icons  
> bleed into the From column, or the Subject bleeds into the  
> Arrival/Date column, are practically unreadable without some sort of  
> column delimiter.  Using ellipses is not a viable solution either  
> (it was my first solution, but it is just about impossible to do  
> dynamically cross-browser).


Can you give an example of column collisions? Until now I've found the  
DIMP message list UI to be pretty ideal. I might add gmail-style  
initial message snippets, but otherwise, it really works for me. The  
grid might grow on my - but right now my reaction is strongly against  
it.

-chuck