On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:06 am, Bill Wisse wrote:
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 22:05, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 12:40 am, Bill Wisse wrote:
What precisely do you mean by "" preview"" pane?
the term "preview pane" comes from Microsoft as the term they used to describe the "default" behaviour of outlook/outlook express
Still beats me why it is called ""preview"" pane if what you're doing is viewing the message. But if the term comes from M$ then what is logical.
true enough. I think the thought process that went on here was that you generally didn't see "the whole message", only the top paragraph or so -- [dunno offhand if the "preview" pane allowed scrolling -- if it didn't, which is likely, then yes, indeed, it would merely be a "preview" rather than a "full view" of the message] To further complicate matters, Outlook also has a "preview mode" whereby the first three lines of the message would be displayed (indented and in a different color/font) underneath the one-line subject listing. This was occaisionally useful, but suffered two problems: 1) messages that begin with a lot of "he said/she said" lines [like this one] or a "mime" header wouldn't actually display anything worth "previewing" 2) HTML still had to be "rendered" (in memory) to display the first few lines, so if the message contained malicious HTML, you were screwed even before you "scrolled down to the message"