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19 Nov 2003, 10:22 PM | #1 | |
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The web interface has the potential to be faster than email clients, here's how:
It should prefetch links before users actually click them.
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- Inbox screen - * Subjects of all unread emails. Starting with the most recent one. * Upper link-bar (Compose, Addresses and Notepad) - View message screen - * Goto links: "<", "Mailbox", ">" * Delete links: "<", "Mailbox", ">" * Upper link-bar (Mailbox, Compose, Addresses and Notepad) - Compose screen - * Upper link-bar (Mailbox, Addresses and Notepad) The speed improvements that we could get from prefetching are enormous. Much of what users are likely to click would already be loaded by the time they finish reading the current page One important note: link prefetching is supported by Netscape, Mozilla and other Gecko-based browsers, not by ones that use yesterday's rendereres like IE6/MSHTML. Nevertheless, users of the latter won't suffer any limitations, they just won't enjoy what current web technology can provide. As for the additional band-width consumption, this would be negligible for holders of Full and Enhanced accounts (my BW count is now at 5.5M/750M...), as such, this feature could also be a great incentive for users to upgrade to such accounts. Prog. Last edited by Prognathous : 19 Nov 2003 at 10:26 PM. |
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19 Nov 2003, 11:10 PM | #2 | |
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Re: The web interface has the potential to be faster than email clients, here's how:
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Sounds like a terrific idea. |
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20 Nov 2003, 12:50 AM | #3 |
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Sounds like an excellent idea to me.. Have to say though.. It sure would be an incentive to upgrade to Full or Enchanced accounts.. Call it something like FastLoad or something of the like.. Although it seems as if only Mozilla based browsers support it.. so it'd be only about 5% of marketshare..
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20 Nov 2003, 01:05 AM | #4 |
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I wouldn't want this without the option to turn it off.
It might speed things up if you are on a fast-connection, but for dial-up users it could slow things down a lot. It all depends on your pattern of use. |
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So that would also be an incentive to try Mozilla, which is just fine with me (an avid Mozilla fan...) Everyone that I know who tried recent releases of Mozilla, never wanted to look back afterwards. Today, three years after the release of IE6, it is an outdated browser whose huge market-share is mostly due to ignorance and due to users who are too lazy to try something better when their current software is adequate for their immediate needs. </OT> Quote:
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20 Nov 2003, 01:35 AM | #6 | |
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20 Nov 2003, 01:46 AM | #7 |
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Ignorant and Complacent
Count me among the ignorant and complacent. Prognathous
where do I get a clean and recent copy of Mozilla? Is it Freeware? What about other issues in it's use versus IE6--security, compatibility, conflicts w/ dual installation, etc.? As to the preloading idea, as I run broadband at home, I'm not sure how much faster the web interface would be, but any amount faster is better except in as much as implementation would delay other improvements. The problem with many of these improvement ideas, mine included, is that the coding resources are limited and there is already a long list of projects and improvements committed to. So the trade off as with all these things is which comes first, if ever? For me, this kind of thing would, if not for the ubiquity of IE, be most useful when accessing FastMail from overseas. While traveling in China and Japan earlier this year I was at a severe disadvantage to my fellow travelers who were accessing their mail at Hotmail and Yahoo, due to their worldwide servers. In some spots, it was almost as if I didn't have any connection to FastMail's servers, it was so slow--and this wasn't dial up, but at surf cafes. In fact, maybe I should start a thread on this--how speed of access to the FM servers varies over the globe. |
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It is definitely more secure than IE6 (for various reasons). In terms of compatibility, it supports every platform you can think of, including Windows, MacOS, Linux and others. It is more compatible than IE with open standards, but it doesn't support proprietary extensions such as IE-DOM. This means that support for non-standard websites is less than that of IE, but still very high (it automatically switches to Quirks-Mode). I haven't encountered any conflicts with dual installation. In fact, I've been running Mozilla on several OSes installed on the same machine and had a great experience. The only thing I would suggest after installation is to open the Preferences panel (under Edit) and switch all the Tabbed Browsing options from their wrong (IMO) defaults. Quote:
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20 Nov 2003, 03:17 AM | #9 | |
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Let's not forget either pure, innocent ignorance of a deeper sort... I was recently talking with a woman I work with, and told her that the problem she was experiencing might have been due to the browser, and asked her which browser she was using. Her response: "What's that?" |
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20 Nov 2003, 03:32 AM | #10 |
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Hear's my $5 toward project X
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I agree and I probably shouldn't even have mentioned that as it might (theoretically) make some folks not bother airing their suggestions. I guess it is implicit (or should be) that anyone suggesting another feature knows that there is already a large coding queue. Obviously it is up to J&R to set the priorities, but I wonder if some sort of bidding system where people could "contribute" to certain projects or feature suggestions would be useful (in addition to the two cents typically offered in this forum and at the Wiki). I've noticed a couple of times posters writing that they would be willing to pay extra for this or that. Predicates would be 1) agreement on the details of the thing to some extent; 2) obviously J&R's acceptance; 3) some sort of agreement that contributors do so without guarantee of any return on their investment. Despite this forum and their openness, this ain't no Co-op, afterall. This really would give a good measure of market interest in various of the multitude of suggestions. |
20 Nov 2003, 08:26 AM | #11 | |
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See Bugzilla Voting for more info on this Bug/RFE voting system. Prog. |
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20 Nov 2003, 12:01 PM | #12 | |
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Now I'm trying to explain why ZoneEdit's forwarding troubles is affecting emails for another family member. He doesn't understand the concepts, so finally we just settled on this explanation sentence: "email address has virus" |
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21 Nov 2003, 01:19 PM | #13 |
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LOL
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21 Nov 2003, 07:50 PM | #14 | |
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Then again, all the FM people are in Aussieland, isn't that a direct neighbor of Southeast Asia? How do they find FM's NYI server performance to be, where they are? |
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22 Nov 2003, 02:45 AM | #15 | |
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That is an excellent idea. It would be easier for us to keep track of what we have asked for! I am sure FastMail already uses an internal issue tracking system, but there is nothing out here in the public. PS - Did my good deed for the day. Got some one to sign up for an Enhanced account! |
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