Hi All,
I have just started a source Project in SourceForget.net using PHP.
Project Name: Weblook Express
URL :
Idea came to me when i thought of porting the complete windows based
Desktop outlook express Application into a Portable, Web based
Application that runs on any Javascript supported webbrowser for any
PP3, or IMAP or HTTP Mail Service Providers.
I am just looking for people who can work along with me so that
complete porting occurs so that we can release the base version.
Technology to be used would be PHP, XML, XSLT, Javascript, HTML.
About Weblook Express
Weblook Express provides an integrated solution for managing and
organizing e-mail messages. It delivers innovations you can use to
manage your email communications, organize your mails - all from one
place similar like the desktop outlook express.
Project would involve complete porting of Desktop Express that
comes with Internet Explorer. The user should be able to configure
multiple Mail Service Providers. User experience is what we must see.
and i have more ideas in my mind. I also invite ideas, suggestions for
this project.
Looking for developers

Hmmm

is notorious for blatantly violating the standards and being a
security nightmare.

Instead I suggest you make an application that has the same look & feel as
outlook but has a core that is much smarter, safer, and better.

Also, work from the ground up to generate standards compliant html (or xhtml)
documents so that FireFox, and KHTML based browsers will render it ok. You
can later add hacks to support non-standard compliant browsers (such as ie)

Not starting a flame war, just providing some common sense.

Good luck with your project

With kind regards

Andy

11/26/05, Andy Pieters <mailings (AT) vlaamse-kern (DOT) comwrote:
Hmmm

is notorious for blatantly violating the standards and being a
security nightmare.

Instead I suggest you make an application that has the same look & feel as
outlook but has a core that is much smarter, safer, and better.

Also, work from the ground up to generate standards compliant html (or xhtml)
documents so that FireFox, and KHTML based browsers will render it ok. You
can later add hacks to support non-standard compliant browsers (such as ie)

i will take your suggestions.

Not starting a flame war, just providing some common sense.

Good luck with your project
--
With kind regards

Andy
--

I'm pretty sure something like this already exists. Why? because I know
somebody who uses it. , so it's written in asp (by MS if I'm not
mistaking), still I wouldn't know why you'd want to write a new one
in php seems hard to make to me; might be wrong though.

anyway, good luck

bala chandar wrote:
Hi All,

I have just started a source Project in SourceForget.net using PHP.

Project Name: Weblook Express
URL :

Idea came to me when i thought of porting the complete windows based
Desktop outlook express Application into a Portable, Web based
Application that runs on any Javascript supported webbrowser for any
PP3, or IMAP or HTTP Mail Service Providers.

I am just looking for people who can work along with me so that
complete porting occurs so that we can release the base version.

Technology to be used would be PHP, XML, XSLT, Javascript, HTML.

About Weblook Express
Weblook Express provides an integrated solution for managing and
organizing e-mail messages. It delivers innovations you can use to
manage your email communications, organize your mails - all from one
place similar like the desktop outlook express.

Project would involve complete porting of Desktop Express that
comes with Internet Explorer. The user should be able to configure
multiple Mail Service Providers. User experience is what we must see.
and i have more ideas in my mind. I also invite ideas, suggestions for
this project.

Looking for developers

Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:09, M. Sokolewicz wrote:
I'm pretty sure something like this already exists. Why? because I know
somebody who uses it. , so it's written in asp (by MS if I'm not
mistaking), still I wouldn't know why you'd want to write a new one
in php seems hard to make to me; might be wrong though.

Hard to make is not a very good argument against making something.
Especially when there's already a will to make it.

Cheers,
Rob.

Robert Cummings wrote:
Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:09, M. Sokolewicz wrote:

>>I'm pretty sure something like this already exists. Why? because I know
>>somebody who uses it. , so it's written in asp (by MS if I'm not
>>mistaking), still I wouldn't know why you'd want to write a new one
>>in php seems hard to make to me; might be wrong though.

Hard to make is not a very good argument against making something.
Especially when there's already a will to make it.

Cheers,
Rob.

that wasn't the reason; the reason I'm looking at is that there is
already a vendor-supplied way of doing it, and a non-vendor way would
(most probably) not have the possibility of even duplicating the
vendor-supplied version's possibilities (in this case).

Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:03, M. Sokolewicz wrote:
Robert Cummings wrote:
Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:09, M. Sokolewicz wrote:

>>I'm pretty sure something like this already exists. Why? because I know
>>somebody who uses it. , so it's written in asp (by MS if I'm not
>>mistaking), still I wouldn't know why you'd want to write a new one
>>in php seems hard to make to me; might be wrong though.

Hard to make is not a very good argument against making something.
Especially when there's already a will to make it.

that wasn't the reason; the reason I'm looking at is that there is
already a vendor-supplied way of doing it, and a non-vendor way would
(most probably) not have the possibility of even duplicating the
vendor-supplied version's possibilities (in this case).

That's like saying open source solutions can't compete with commercial
solutions. I'm not buying it (pun observed but not intended :)

Cheers,
Rob.

Robert Cummings wrote:
Sat, 2005-11-26 at 14:03, M. Sokolewicz wrote:

>>Robert Cummings wrote:
>>
Sat, 2005-11-26 at 11:09, M. Sokolewicz wrote:

I'm pretty sure something like this already exists. Why? because I know
somebody who uses it. , so it's written in asp (by MS if I'm not
mistaking), still I wouldn't know why you'd want to write a new one
in php seems hard to make to me; might be wrong though.

Hard to make is not a very good argument against making something.
Especially when there's already a will to make it.

>>
>>that wasn't the reason; the reason I'm looking at is that there is
>>already a vendor-supplied way of doing it, and a non-vendor way would
>>(most probably) not have the possibility of even duplicating the
>>vendor-supplied version's possibilities (in this case).

That's like saying open source solutions can't compete with commercial
solutions. I'm not buying it (pun observed but not intended :)

Cheers,
Rob.

pun accepted :)

after thinking this over for a while, I actually started wondering if
this is about building a webinterface to an application (outlook) or if
it's simply an outlook-similair interface to a mailhost.
If it's #1, I keep to my point (especially since you interface to an
application which is *not* opensource). If it's #2 (or a variant
thereof) I agree with you ;)
- tul

bala chandar wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have just started a source Project in SourceForget.net using PHP.
>
>Project Name: Weblook Express
>URL :
>
>Idea came to me when I thought of porting the complete windows based
>Desktop outlook express Application into a Portable, Web based
>Application that runs on any Javascript supported web browser for any
>PP3, or IMAP or HTTP Mail Service Providers.
>
>I am just looking for people who can work along with me so that
>complete porting occurs so that we can release the base version.
>
>Technology to be used would be PHP, XML, XSLT, Javascript, HTML.
>

I'm currently using a commercial product for HTML archiving
(MAPIlab's HTML E-mail Archiver). Although it works well and I'm
generally pleased with it, I would be interested in such an application
that was open source. However, I have no interest in Express. If
this ever progresses to the point of an MS version, I could get
interested in it.