another screenshot -- more complex html

Keith was wondering how spaces handled HTML email and I posted the screenshot for an RSS Entry feed from Scripting News. He then commented (here as well as an update of his original entry):

Hey cool! I'm not trying to be disparaging, but how's it handle e-mails from places like Amazon.com?

No disparage at all :-). The question is valid because Amazon (and other places--and many email clients) don't send simply HTML email with a "text/html" MIME type, they send "multiplart/alternative" or "multipart/mixed" messages that are more complex to parse and require a bit of special handling. Spaces can handle them too though. Here is a screenshot of an autoresponse from Amazon:

(click on the image to see a larger version, 1000x700, ~150KB).

prisoners ... of war?

From the New York Times: Afghans Freed From Guantánamo Bay Speak of Heat and Isolation

and here we go again

From Salon: Salon.com Technology | Microsoft's media monopoly

the limits of transparency

A weblog entry from Jon Udell from a while back on how distributed communication tools like weblogs expose internal information. Very interesting. (Here's a comment from Dan on Jon's entry as well).

new feature

Just got an email regarding a spaces feature question: are 1:N relations between contact entries possible (similar to what can be seen in this screenshot of a web-based groupware product from SUSE). That feature is not included right now, but it sounds like an excellent idea. It might even make the release next week. :-)

spaces and html email

Keith comments on Spaces and wonders:

Anything that would help me move from a Microsoft e-mail program I'd like. Although, come to think of it, being written in Java I don't know what it'll use to support HTML in e-mail.

Spaces supports HTML email through standard java components and my own extensions. And since an image is better than a thousand words, here's a screenshot with Spaces reading an entry from today's Scripting News with HTML and an image (and of course, even though this is from an RSS feed, the same applies for email):

(click on the image to see a larger version, 1000x700, 150KB).