<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv1849058986"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_62">Hello all,</span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_68"><br></span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_94"><span style="font-size: 13px;">As you may/may
not know, I've been working on tabbed composition for the past month now and I'd like some help on the codebase/architecture. Currently </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;">ported the bulk of OpenComposeWindow and OpenComposeWindowParams to JS functions and have rewritten nearly all the calls to the JS port, and now looking into the window/tab management stuff. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;"> </span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-style:normal;"><br>As discussed on BugZilla, it would be best to implement the new 'compose tab' like
the message view tab (mail/base/content/</span><span style="font-style: italic;">mailTabs.js</span><span style="font-style:normal;">), so it can be opened in either a new window or new tab and so forth. This would also allow for older users to still use windows (should tabbed composition be a default?). So how are they implemented? How can I iterate over open compose tabs etc.?</span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-style:normal;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56">After this, I have to finish porting OpenComposeWindow, which includes:</div><div
id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-size: 13px;">- integrating GetOrigWindowSelection to use the new compose tab mode</span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-size: 13px;">- integrating LoadDraftOrTemplate - which is a </span><span style="font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent;">tricky function compared to the others because it goes down a long road of function calls (DisplayMessage onwards) before it reaches any UI-related code. </span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span
style="font-size: 13px;">- integrating ComposeMessage to iterate through open draft tabs</span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-size: 13px;">- rewrite the argument passing mechanism (nsMsgComposeParams) to use something other than window.arguments - MsgComposeCommands.js</span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-size: 13px;">- some other misc. stuff todo with js string encoding</span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span
style="font-size: 13px;">After that, some more things:<br></span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-size: 13px;">- Rewrite the code to close the message tab (so it doesn't try to close the window and crash)</span></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="background-color: transparent;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_56"><span style="font-size: 13px;">- Redesign the UX so there are not 2 menu bars - this will be very interesting</span></div></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">- Add options similar to "Preferences->Advanced->Reading and Display" (open message in new tab/window etc.)</div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_61"><br></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_61">When the majority of the coding is done, we'll have to get in touch with UX for the menu bar and whether compose should open in a new tab by default. </div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_61"><br></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_61">Look forward to getting this long-awaited feature done.</div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_48" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_17_1362116764957_61"><br></div><div id="yiv1849058986yui_3_7_2_16_1362043379697_54" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Liam (liamzebedee) Edwards-Playne</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>