Re: [SM-DEVEL] Seriously Dated Interface

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On 2017年02月02日 19:52, Solid Iron wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I will prefix this by saying that this is my first time posting to this
> list and that I have never contributed to SquirrelMail development so
> feel free to ignore my question.
> 
> However I own a software development firm. We write mostly web-based
> business software on .NET framework with an MS-SQL backend. We have been
> doing this since the days of “classic” ASP in the late 1990’s. So while
> I haven’t contributed specifically to SquirrelMail I do nevertheless
> have a pretty good idea of what it takes to develop a robust modern
> web-based application that people use every day. I also have a good
> grasp of what users expect when it comes to web-based applications.
> Nevertheless, as I said before, feel free to ignore my question.
> 
> Has the issue of the _*seriously dated*_ user experience of SquirrelMail
> got anyone’s attention? With the explosion of web-based email apps
> (Gmail, Outlook.com, Microsoft Exchange, RoundCube, etc) users expect a
> radically different experience then what they are getting from
> SquirrelMail. Any IT administrator deploying SquirrelMail today is
> likely to be perceived by their user base as having deployed an archaic
> solution.
> 
> Web-based apps in general (Office 365, Google Docs, Facebook, etc) are
> pushing the limits of what’s possible and redefining what users expect.
> Let’s ask the hard question: is SquirrelMail even close?!?? Are there
> any plans to get it there?
> 
> It seems to me (if the screenshots on the squirrelmail.org
> <http://squirrelmail.org> website are any indication) that all serious
> development on SquirrelMail stalled in 2002 or thereabouts.
> 
> Sorry if this sounds harsh...  Today if I was looking for an open source
> web-based IMAP client I would be looking at RoundCube – no question.
> SquirrelMail was the pioneer. Why aren’t we there?

You're welcome to use your vast experience to contribute a skin for
SquirrelMail 1.5.2 where a templating layer was added.

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SquirrelMail Team
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