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Posted by Ian Goldsmid
Mar 27, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Hi
I’ve been reading this thread with interest. I have been wedded to Outlook (now 2007) for years, but have been constantly seeking a single solution for integrating email, web, files, task & calendar management in one product (gemx doOrganizer just didn’t cut it for me). I believe Zoot 6 will have this capability, and Stratovista looks quite ingenious.
Since the developer is reading these posts I wanted to suggest that he consider adding tabbed browsing to “the fully functional internal web browser”. This would make a huge difference as we could then spend more productive time using the SV internal browser rather than always referring to Firefox or IE 7/8..
Another question is: With Outlook we can send/receive meeting invitations and when these are “Accepted” they are automatically added to the Outlook Calendar. I wonder how Stratovista would handle this?
IJG
Posted by -MAF-
Mar 28, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Ian Goldsmid wrote:
>Hi
>
>I’ve been reading this thread with interest. I have been wedded to Outlook (now
>2007) for years, but have been constantly seeking a single solution for integrating
>email, web, files, task & calendar management in one product (gemx doOrganizer just
>didn’t cut it for me). I believe Zoot 6 will have this capability, and Stratovista
>looks quite ingenious.
>
>Since the developer is reading these posts I wanted to
>suggest that he consider adding tabbed browsing to “the fully functional internal
>web browser”. This would make a huge difference as we could then spend more productive
>time using the SV internal browser rather than always referring to Firefox or IE
>7/8..
>
>Another question is: With Outlook we can send/receive meeting invitations
>and when these are “Accepted” they are automatically added to the Outlook Calendar. I
>wonder how Stratovista would handle this?
>
>IJG
Hi Ian,
We’ve actually considered adding the more advanced browser features, like tabbing to the internal browser in StratoVista,
(btw, just to clarify, you can set a different page for each Channel Tab as well as each Topic, but I don’t think that’s what
you’re asking). Our thinking against this went as follows:
1) The primary function of the internal browser is to support the core features of StratoVista, not to entirely replace Firefox or IE.
We don’t think most users would give up FF or IE even if we did.
2) Both Firefox and IE can be used with StratoVista - for example you can drag pages from them into StratoVista (to save the page
on your Time-line) and open pages from SV into either of them.
3) There’s always a trade-off between the “functional set” and performance. We tried not to add more functions then we really thought
were necessary (and we’ve had some pretty “exciting” internal “debates” on this) so as to keep performance as crisp as possible.
4) Adding more features, especially visible ones like browser tabs, would increase the functional and visual complexity of SV, which is
something we would like to avoid, especially since we’ve already introduced many new concepts into the design already (i.e. Channel Tabs,
Stations, Topics, Floating Tabs etc.)
With respect to “send/receive meeting invitations” -
1) Set up a Topic (or a Channel) to publish Appointments, Notes and/or emails to Google Calendar
(see - http://www.stratovista.com/Tutorial.htm#Publishing) and (http://www.stratovista.com/Tutorial.htm#Google_Calendar)
2) Invite the people (or the entire world, if you want) to share the calendar with - this can be done either in
SV or the “output calendar” that you create using SV in the Google Calendar settings page.
3) Modify the Auto Accept rules in GCalendar the way you want them (see http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=44105&topic=8605)
And you’re good to go. The neat thing is that you can share the calendar (and invite, allow editing etc.) with anyone - they don’t need to be
StratoVista users. They don’t even need a Google account for many features, but having one is better (and it’s free anyway). You can’t
make this claim about Outlook/Exchange Server
Posted by Ian Goldsmid
Mar 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM
A further point is: As far as I can see now I’ve installed SV is that it is text only, no rich text or html editing. Is that correct, and if so, when (hopefully) do you intend to add RTF / HTML text editing?
Posted by Ian Goldsmid
Mar 28, 2009 at 01:23 AM
Ian Goldsmid wrote:
>A further point is: As far as I can see now I’ve installed SV is that it is text only, no
>rich text or html editing. Is that correct, and if so, when (hopefully) do you intend to
>add RTF / HTML text editing?
Scratch that - sorry, it does include rhtml editing