[imp] Horizontal/Vertical layout focus

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting John H. Bennett III <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting John H. Bennett III <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:
>>
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> Another gripe I keep getting is the inability of the webmail  
>>> client to maintain focus while in the preview window.  People  
>>> don't want to have to either double-click a message, or when in  
>>> the preview window, click on the scroll bar to scroll through a  
>>> message, they would rather be able to click on the layout view,  
>>> and once in that view, be able to use the mouse or keyboard keys  
>>> to scroll through their message.  Why?  Yeah, because that's what  
>>> outlook can do.
>>>
>>> I'm up for any words or reasons I can tell my users as to why this  
>>> isn't possible with horde.
>>
>> Because browser UI elements != OS UI elements.
>>
>> We make use of IFRAMEs (for HTML messages) to segregate potentially  
>> dangerous external data (message content) from the rest of the  
>> page.  IFRAMEs are handled differently by each browser.  An IFRAME,  
>> by default, has no connection/contact to the parent page.  So if  
>> you do something in the IFRAME, this has NO EFFECT on the rest of  
>> the page.
>>
>> Essentially, you can think of the message preview as a completely  
>> separate application than IMP.  We *try* to capture  
>> clicks/keypresses inside of the IFRAME, but this is not always  
>> possible (e.g. browser issues; for security reasons we may not be  
>> able to precisely simulate that click in the parent page).
>>
>> michael
>>
>> ___________________________________
>> Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]
>>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Yes, OK, thank you for explaining, but when using Outlook Web  
> Access, you don't have this issue, no matter if you are using a MAC,  
> or Windows PC.  Once you change the focus to the preview pane, you  
> are able to scroll with the mouse, or by using the keyboard keys. Is  
> this still a matter of UI elements != OS UI elements, or is MS using  
> some other method than what horde uses or can use?

Microsoft probably has 20 full-time engineers working on the Outlook  
Web Access team.  That's the difference.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]