One of the most important traits of Web 2.0 applications is low user-perceived latency in UI update, which usually requires low latency event notification from server to client. However due to the limitations of the HTTP protocol, a server cannot initiate communication with a client as events occur. (more…)
One of the Coolest Things Ever.
It’s been tough keeping this one under wraps because it’s so cool. Yep: It’s in Zimbra 5.0. (more…)
Video Mashups Killed the Radio Star
Zimlets are great, they allow developers to integrate our mail UI with all kinds of third party web services and APIs. But what about integrating third party management consoles with Zimbra Admin UI? In version 5 Zimbra Admin UI is an open platform that allows developers to integrate ZCS Admin UI with other management consoles […]
From Gzip to JSMin to Shrinksafe to YUI Compressor
When Zimbra started out we had only a few thousand lines of JavaScript and didn’t really optimize our JavaScript at all. As we added features to the Zimbra Web Client, the code base grew pretty fast. On the client/end user side, raw Javascript in hundreds of script tags were received. This came out to be […]
Domain Disclaimer Extension
This feature request has 62 votes, and has been around since Zimbra 3.0. The Zimbra Team has been working insanely hard to finish up and polish Zimbra 5.0, and we weren’t able to fit this request into 5.0. Luckily, a member of the Zimbra Community has come to the rescue. (more…)
Default Mail Applications (mailto reprised)
We’ve had some great responses to my blog post yesterday about changing the default mailto links using Firefox. There’s a couple of problems with my method: 1) It’s not really scalable for an admin [ie no auto install] 2) Not really applicable for Safari and Internet Explorer. (more…)