113848 - RFE: "View Message Source" in EMail context menu

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 75338

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[August Mayer]

For some arguments pro and contra see Bug #112710.

Comment 1

[:deanis74]

Responding to a couple of comments from 112710.  Also please see bug 75538 for
the ongoing revision of the browser and mail context menus.

> * Also, Microsoft has deemed this important enough to put into their mail
> context menu. I'm not taking them as the measure, but they are at least making
> popular mail clients.

Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated that they don't have any UI design
standards.  Just because they do something is not a reason for us to copy them.

> * Additionally, why is there a "View source" in the context menu of HTML pages?
> It would make even more sense with mail messages, which could contain possibly
> harmful HTML, Javascript or (hopefully not too soon) Mozilla virii.

If you look at bug 75538, there hopefully won't be a View Source context menu
item in the browser.  I agree that this is a useful function, but can easily be
accomplished with a View > Message Source menu item, instead of cluttering up
the context menu.

> * Large context menus are, in my opinion, as good to use as small ones;

Heh.  Try telling that to mpt!  The basic argument here is that as the number of
items in a context menu increases, its usefulness decreases due to the amount of
time it takes to scan and recognize each item when searching for a command.

Comment 2

[:deanis74]

Sorry, I meant bug 75338.

Comment 3

[Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75338 ***

Comment 4

[Sebastian Späth]

verifying, second try of a wontfix