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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / October 2006More insight on Penelope
See the short TidBITS article: http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/?50@382.uFgFba7FrRQ@.3c804d7a (TidBITS = highly recommended reading for any mac user, especially power users or aspiring power users). Here's an excerpt: "I was getting really tired of maintaining Eudora's elderly code base, as well as working on extremely boring things like HTML rendering," Dorner told TidBITS. He looks forward to "using Thunderbird as a base," allowing him to focus on "the things that make up the core productivity parts of the Eudora experience." The company picked the cross-platform Thunderbird product because, he says, "it has strengths where Eudora has weaknesses, and will complement us quite nicely. Mozilla is also happy to have us developing for their platform, and has made it very clear to us that they welcome our effort." He hopes "that improvements [will] flow freely between the two mailers."  SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > See the short TidBITS article: > > http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/?50@382.uFgFba7FrRQ@.3c804d7a Thanks for posting that. It's an encouraging article. SignatureKathy > > See the short TidBITS article: > > > > http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/?50@382.uFgFba7FrRQ@.3c804d7a > > Thanks for posting that. It's an encouraging article. Personally I can understand what has happened, I think. Without knowing any details at all, Eudora must have some truly ancient pieces of code in it still (I wouldn't be surprised if there were remants of 68K code there if that is technically possible). To bring it all up to date must be a gargantuan task, and would probably involve rewriting most of the app, including all those little extras (x-settings, etc., etc.) that make it what it is over and apart from other mail clients. That in its turn might well have meant that the end result would not have had a "Eudora look & feel" at all, and existing users would have been frustrated. And FWIW, I've been wondering for many years why Qualcomm (of all companies) should keep on doing Eudora... In this way, hopefully there will be a "Thundora" or Eudobird" somewhere down the line, taking the good things from both, and without the burden of the Eudora legacy as everyone will know that this is an entirely new project. Looking forward to a Great New Thundora (tm) some time next year! ;-) Signature/Jon For contact info, run the following in Terminal: Mail: echo 36199371860304980107073482417748002696458P|dc Skype: echo 139576319600233690471689738P|dc >See the short TidBITS article: > >http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/?50@382.uFgFba7FrRQ@.3c804d7a > >(TidBITS = highly recommended reading for any mac user, especially power >users or aspiring power users). >Here's an excerpt: >"I was getting really tired of maintaining Eudora's elderly code base, >as well as working on extremely boring things like HTML rendering," I don't see how he could get tired of working on HTML rendering, since he never bothered to do it. >Dorner told TidBITS. He looks forward to "using Thunderbird as a base," >allowing him to focus on "the things that make up the core productivity [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >us that they welcome our effort." He hopes "that improvements [will] >flow freely between the two mailers." > >"I was getting really tired of maintaining Eudora's elderly code base, > >as well as working on extremely boring things like HTML rendering," > > I don't see how he could get tired of working on HTML rendering, since he > never bothered to do it. ... and since WebKit could have done the heavy lifting for them... Corentin >>See the short TidBITS article: >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >>"I was getting really tired of maintaining Eudora's elderly code base, >>as well as working on extremely boring things like HTML rendering," >I don't see how he could get tired of working on HTML rendering, since he >never bothered to do it. By the way, that sounds really snarky, but I love Eudora; I've been using it for at least a decade, and I love its power, flexibility, and the fact that it isn't that three-paned monstrosity everyone else provides. I'm just annoyed that it's so bad at this one thing that everyone else manages to do. > >>See the short TidBITS article: > >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > just annoyed that it's so bad at this one thing that everyone else manages > to do. The right thing for a mail user agent to do is strip out HTML and ignore it, and send only plain text. -- tim > > >I don't see how he could get tired of working on HTML rendering, since he > > >never bothered to do it. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > just annoyed that it's so bad at this one thing that everyone else manages > > to do. I'm glad you wrote this; when you first made that comment I was tempted to say something snarky in return, but I restrained myself. I have some beefs with Qualcomm, but they don't extend to Steve Dorner. I think it's nice that he still (apparently) considers Eudora his baby after all of these years, and that he's finding an alternate life path for it, so to speak. > The right thing for a mail user agent to do is strip out HTML and ignore > it, and send only plain text. And I wish that that would work, except that there are cases where the person's layout does convey information. Had they written it originally in plain text, you'd be OK, but you are at a disadvantage given that it was written for HTML. Personally, I hate the HTML, and just use the "show in browser" function when I really need to see it. However, even I have to admit that that is getting old. Functional HTML display would be nice -- as long as most of the time, I don't have to see it. SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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