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By: Ajaxian » Great visualizations with Protovis

Ajaxian » Great visualizations with Protovis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:29:32 +0000

[...] that I will dump Gmail for something he and the Messaging team come up with one day and the visualizations that he is playing with are quite cool indeed. Seeing your email in different ways (not just in a table) can open the [...]

By: Andrew Sutherland

Andrew Sutherland — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:13:47 +0000

Merike, yes, we could do that. I feel like that would be a ‘workaround’ for a design that is hard to read, though. Do you think you’d really be able to work with the visualization on a day-to-day basis? Of course, there are some things we could do to increase readability without losing the ‘radar’ look, but it still seems wasteful…

willyaranda, thanks for checking and glad you like it!

fishy,
1) The message reader has a reply button on it (if sufficiently expanded?). Or, you can also bring the old toolbar back and/or customize the exptoolbar (I think…?)
2) There was a problem with the JavaScript Mime emitter that was resolved somewhat recently. However, unless you blew away your global-messages-db.sqlite manually, the messages will not have been re-indexed correctly. If you quit Shredder/Thunderbird, delete the global-messages-db.sqlite file, and then start Shredder/Thunderbird again, wait a while for it to index, then you should have non-garbled text.

VLS, hmm… maybe that would make a good templated reply system…

By: VLS

VLS — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:01:47 +0000

Cool stuff, but after reading this I couldn’t help but think of “Radial Dialogue Tree”s.

See: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/lang/en-US/ss83-hires.jpg
From: http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

(might want to note it was 2009-04-01 !)

By: fishy

fishy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:34:09 +0000

some problems:
1. no reply button on exptoolbar, so I have to reply a mail by keyboard shortcut
2. in search result, mail body decoding is horrible. Even well encoded UTF-8 mail like this (sent from Thunderbird):
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
will show lots of garbled texts.

By: willyaranda

willyaranda — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:57:49 +0000

It seems that it’s not working on beta 2, at least on my es-ES official build.

Using the latest comm-central l10n build, it works! nice and awesome work!

By: Merike

Merike — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:16:23 +0000

It’s refreshing to see data without a table. As for reading text it makes you want to *roll* it as you’d do with a lottery wheel. Could be done with left and right arrows for example.