Each year now, a new generation of young people (mosdy students) discover the Internet and they start with Web mail straight away. Hence, it was a Standard practice to store email ‘offline’ using an email Client. If you did not regularly purge old messages, then your incoming mail would bounce with the dreaded ‘Inbox full’ error. Mailbox storage was limited to measly amounts such as 5MB or 10MB. This was at a time when most people had email accounts with their ISP or had free Web mail accounts with Hotmail or Yahoo. I n 2004, Google introduced its Gmail Service with a 1GB mailbox and free POP access. Satisfication is the norm, not perfectionism.SeaMonkey Review – Learn to use and store email messages offline with Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. But that is just probably reflective of why there are so few SM members. I guess it just strikes me as odd to place the emphasis and most of the man power on Firefox rather than the suite since it is easier to go from Seamonkey to Firefox, seemingly, than the other way around. However, I guess, or imagine, that should I be a developer I would want to develop my software so that it could be the best possible and not merely try to meet a market demand (which usually is satisfied with less rigorous standards). If that is the case, there is certainly an argument to be made there. SeaMonkey also tends to have a more robust reviewing process which leads to better code.Īnd so the argument then would be that the additional features in SM (both the aesthetic and operative ones) would hold back the Firefox end should the project be unified as I suggested. Both browsers have different ideas for how the user interface should look and work. Right now, there are separate teams for each component rather than everyone working alongside one another towards the same end. Since all efforts would be more united, there would be more time to implement the customizable options for everyday users (the idea being seamonkey could be one preset and firefox another so all the user had to do was select which he wanted when running the universal installer). Once Seamonkey is toolkit, the difference between it and the firefox/thunderbird combo will be greatly minimized.īut what of the difference between Seamonkey and firefox I hear you cry? Naturally, it would be much simpler to have the program customizable so that users can set it up like seamonkey if they wanted that, or firefox if they wanted that. And naturally, they are moving closer to that. The idea being then there would be no difference between thunderbird/firefox/seamonkey/sunbird/lightning/etc. Those wanting just any other component could install them separately or in tandem with any other should they desire to do so. Those just wanting a Email client could have done that (thunderbird). The intelligent thing to do from the beginning would have been to develop the suite so that individuals who wanted all components could have it, and those who only wanted a browser could install just it (firefox). (2) What can you do to get Lightning or a similar calendar extension for SeaMonkey available and publicized? A basic calendar with alarms is something a lot of ordinary users are waiting for before they commit to SeaMonkey (and away from whatever).Īctually, I agree with Acbar. So my questions: (1) what can ordinary but connected users do to put pressure on the Foundation Board or any other pressure points to get more convergence here based on the single-suite concept? At the least there ought to be a commitment to cross-accommodate all extensions. Nobody's going to diminish the importance of what you are doing right now but damnit, it needs consistent publicity and even a little marketing to the IT trade. You're absolutely right in what you are doing there ought to be one integrated suite for anyone's personal use of the internet, and if some insist they won't commit the extra memory, let them opt out of those portions they don't want to load (negative extensions if you will), rather than making the vast majority build the suite from bricks without mortar. And I registered just to say, "Well Done, SeaMonkey Team!" But I still have to add the obvious: it is ridiculous that the Mozilla effort remains divided between Mozilla Fdn/Corp and the volunteer SeaMonkey construct. OK, now 1.1.1 is out and from this neophyte's viewpoint it is terrific.
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