{"id":161,"date":"2005-10-03T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2005-10-03T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T14:30:49","slug":"microsoft-hearts-ajax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/03\/microsoft-hearts-ajax\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft (hearts) Ajax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My work environment has support for Outlook web access to our Microsoft Exchange Servers so we can access our email anywhere from Internet Explorer as long as we're connected to the corporate LAN.  They recently updated the version of it and I was really impressed this morning when I needed to use it (so much so that I decided to write about it).   <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Using Outlook Web Access (2003 edition, I think) with Internet Explorer 6 is QUITE a pleasant experience.  Multi-pane approach to preview emails, right-click menus are supported just as in Outlook (i.e. they are not the IE right-click menus), when new mail comes in a small window appears near the desktop clock, just like Outlook or MSN Messenger.  Basically the latest version has most of the niceties of the native Outlook application but in a web browser, which goes to show that when Microsoft wants to, they can build a PREMIUM web application for Internet Explorer that blows Google's Gmail out of the sky (really!).<\/p>\n<p>Now the one caveat is that the application is only partially functioning in the latest (Beta) version of Firefox.  I mean it works, but many of the niceties are gone.  I can do the essentials but I'm still pretty aware that it is a web application.  To me it seems that Firefox could have been better supported by the Web Access team but it is clear there is a motivation there to use Internet Explorer (furthermore, is Firefox ready for the enterprise?).<\/p>\n<p>And as for Opera 8.5...well, the interface tried to come up, but it kept saying \"Loading...\" in the main pane.  I had to resize the window splitter to get the mail folders to appear in the left-hand pane (some repaint problem).  When I clicked \"Inbox\" in the left-hand pane, the entire web page appeared in the small left-hand pane, clicking again caused it to recurse again.  Not pretty... I feel that most of the blame lies with Opera's not-so-good Ajax support, but I'm also sure that the web developers behind Outlook Web Access did not test in Opera (since the application is not even functional).  If Opera wants to keep in the game, they need to brush up their support for modern web application technologies like Ajax.  I've also noticed this with my own Ajax apps (simple chat program) that do not work in Opera (or Safari).  I want to love Opera, really I do... \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\"><object type=\"text\/html\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/gads.php\"><\/object><\/div>\n<p>[Edit: This entry comes just before I read <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/10\/03\/1057258\">this article<\/a> on slashdot.org today.  While I think email makes sense to be web-enabled, a full-blown Office application will take much more support in terms of being able to access local file systems (without having to run a web server on my off-line laptop to use it).  We'll see what happens in the next year or two.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work environment has support for Outlook web access to our Microsoft Exchange Servers so we can access our email anywhere from Internet Explorer as long as we&#8217;re connected to the corporate LAN. 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