ippimail: Backstory
Simon Martin pointed me to a post on Tony Mobily’s blog, "Welcome ippimail.com!" that gives the backstory of ippimail. Tony Mobily is the founder of the Free Software Magazine.
It’s quite interesting to see Simon describe his realisation of just what Free Software is about.
He also mentioned that ippimail now has an HTML compose feature. You have to go into "Display Preferences" options, and enable it in the "Message Display and Composition" section. The composer they’ve used is TinyMCE, and is the one used in the WordPress blogging software, and hence used in writing this blog. The version used on ippimail seems to be a later version than used here on Blogsome, and features a spell-checker. It’s quite impressive 
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If they keep up this rapid pace of improvement, things are looking good.
Related posts:
- ippimail: Free Software web-mail with a feel-good factor
- ippimail: Shopping does work
- ippimail: An interview with co-founder Simon Martin
Links:
- ippimail
- "Welcome ippimail.com!", on Tony Mobily’s Blog
- TinyMCE
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