310443 - Integrate Rich Text in webmails

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[M-Rick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko Camino/0.9+
Build Identifier: Version 2005092804 (1.0a1+)

Integrate the possibility to enhance mails writing in webmails with Rich Text
like the eWebMail Firefox extension does.
It also allows copy-paste from a web page to the mail writting field.

without :
Gmail : http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image28nn.png
Yahoo : http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image27hq.png

With :
Gmail : http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image15rm.png
Yahoo : http://img362.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image48yq.png

http://patsis.brownhost.com/extxpi.html#ewebmail

eWebMail - Color and Graphics
" For Firefox versions 0.9 - 1.0.4 and Mozilla 1.7.8
Enables Color and Graphics for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, MyWay mail composition in
Firefox.
Still problem with reply (fetch the original message)."
http://patsis.brownhost.com/ewebmailview.png

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jasper]

That's not a extension but a feature called Midas, we do support it. It's just
that certain website do a browser check and disavbled it for camino.

Comment 2

[M-Rick]

I don't know if it is Medas or not, but what is sure, if i disable this
extension in Firefox I don't have access to these features at all in the webmails.

and just read what it is written on the extension website :

http://patsis.brownhost.com/extxpi.html#ewebmail

eWebMail - Color and Graphics
" For Firefox versions 0.9 - 1.0.4 and Mozilla 1.7.8
Enables Color and Graphics for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, MyWay mail composition in
Firefox.
Still problem with reply (fetch the original message)."
http://patsis.brownhost.com/ewebmailview.png

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

All the extension is doing is working around the browser-sniffing in Yahoo!
(something is messed up with your Firefox because I get Rich Text in Gmail no
problem, no extension needed; they still sniff against Camino,
though--evangelism bug 291000).

Note that Yahoo says the feature is not available for Macs or Netscape:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/send/send-26.html  If you spoof your
userAgent, Yahoo! will give Fx the Rich Text toolbar.  This is a Tech Evangelism
issue, too: bug 183863.  Nothing more Camino or Fx developers can do on this
issue.  The tech is there in Camino and Firefox; Yahoo and Gmail just have to
choose to offer it to us and not just to other browers on other platforms.

Since both sites are covered by existing evangelism bugs, INVALID.

Comment 4

[M-Rick]

I have de-activated eWebMail, well it works for Gmail, but not for Yahoo. If I
change the user agent to any windows browser in Yahoo, it doesn't work at all,
neither in hotmail. When I reactivate eWebMail it works perfectly everywhere,
whatever the user agent I use.