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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>
>> 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.
>
> See attached - 1 example of a subject/arrival collision and 1  
> example  of a flags/from collision.  These aren't manufactured/rare  
> examples  either - they were both in my INBOX.  And this is on a  
> browser with a  viewport width of 1164 pixels.
>
> We have had grid lines in IMP for forever, presumably for this exact reason.
>
> FYI - the couple of desktop MUA's I looked at (thunderbird,  
> evolution)  use row shading and ellipses.  As previously mentioned,  
> ellipses is  not really an option because none of the workarounds  
> for  text-overflow: ellipsis are realistic for this use case (the   
> workarounds for lacking either require boatloads of javascript,   
> specific HTML structure, browser-specific hacks, or document-wide   
> stylesheet settings).  This is the rare case where IE is better than  
>  all of the other browsers.

I agree with Michael. Not being used to the original mailbox design,  
because I don't use DIMP that much, the grid looks pretty straight  
forward to me and resembles the IMP interface. And I also agree that  
it helps with colliding columns.

Jan.

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