Three posts in the same day may be a Zimbra Blog record. Just had to post this. Ignoring all the buzz of Zimbra Desktop over the past 24hrs, Roland has been heads down adding calendar support to the Zimbra Lite client (JSP/HTML based for old computers, slow networks, and ancient browsers). He owes us a […]
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Lazy Loading
The ZCS web client recently underwent a significant amount of change in order to load Javascript code as needed, rather than loading all of it on initial login. Those changes included the development of a package system, and a lot of shuffling around of client code over the course of about two months. The results […]
4.5, admins, and backup/restore
ZCS 4.5 helps make admins’ jobs easier — a lot easier in some cases. This post discusses advanced search in the admin console, backup and restore in the admin console, backup performance improvements, and good policies for creating a recoverable system. Advanced Search for Users, Domains, Servers We’ve added an advanced search capability to the […]
Declared Javascript Functions – Odd Parsing Behavior in IE
A function declared in a conditional block that evaluates to false gets defined in IE, but not in Firefox. That is a problem if you are trying to use an ‘ifdef’ or ‘require_once’ mechanism for defining functions. However, if the function is defined via assignment, the reference is not created, which is what you’d expect. […]
Keyboard Shortcuts
ZCS 4.5 contains several significant enhancements to keyboard navigation: First, shortcuts are now defined in properties files. Second, you can create numeric aliases for folders, tags, and saved searches, which you can then use in shortcuts. Third, there is now a page within Preferences that describes all available shortcuts. [This post is a higher-level followup […]
What's new in ZCS 4.5 Beta 1
We posted the first beta of Zimbra 4.5 this past Friday. Major new features of 4.5 include complex password enforcement, identities, personal distro lists’s, server performance improvements, backup/restore in the admin console, a search builder in the admin console, user-set default fonts for HTML compose, an upgrade to use MySQL 5.0, and a Lotus Domino […]