[JA] Re: Writing in an Offline Browser
- From: George H Lunt <glunt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:38:09 -0700
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 jim.henderson@xxxxxxxx writes:
> Strange that Juno wanted to give up its offline mailer and use a
> browser for that job in Version 5.
Hi Jim, and All,
Not sure what you're referring to here... seems to me the browser is
"additional" and doesn't replace anything as far as their mail service is
concerned.
>GHL>Juno browser is basically a "Mask" over Internet Explorer
>>and it's probably modified a feature in IE during installation.
>>Open IE and select *Tools, Internet Options, Connections*
>>and double check the radio buttons about mid-window.
>>They range from "Never..." to "Always..." dial a connection.
..
>Right, George, and thanks. I opened MSIE by its own icon and
>changed from "Dial whenever an Internet connection is not present" to
>"Never." Funny that these options don't show up when using Juno to
>write mail, since there is no "Tools" menu.
..
>Oh. Click Options, Web Preferences, Internet Options. The menu is
>misleading, because Web isn't the question but Internet Explorer is.
>IE was designed as a Web browser but is being used as an offline mail
>writer as well. So IE was begging to be allowed to connect, when I only
>wanted to read and write mail offline. Perhaps Juno one day will fix
the
>installer so the browser will only want to go online when it's being
>used to browse.
I don't think your assumption about IE being used as an offline mail
writer is correct, but rather as a tool to call for a connection to the
Internet. It wouldn't have been IE that was begging for the connection,
but rather another program such as Outlook Express set to check mail
every couple of minutes for example. Juno will check for new mail, but
only about every 15 minutes (?) I think it is, and only when you're
already connected to the Internet. But the mail side of their service
will NOT call for an Internet connection if you're not connected. You
might want to try experimenting with just Juno open using *Options, Web
Preferences, Web Browser Settings, Internet Options* to change the
Connections settings through their range. Then try opening IE (still
making sure no other programs are open) and run through the range of
Connections options. Then open the other programs you often have running
besides these two and run through the Connections options again and I
think you'll get a clearer picture of what's what.
>There are other consequences. Above the text window there's a row
>of icons similar to MS-Word which provide a quick BOLD option and a
>font selector similar to that in Juno 4. The old Options menu, on
the...
Yes, you CAN now compose HTML messages directly, but you don't have too.
(Is this the part you're referring too when you suggest IE as the mail
writer?) One of the major drawbacks to the tie between Juno and IE, is
that when you change these options in one of the programs, you change it
in the other as well. You can't have one font in IE, and another in Juno,
for instance.
>As with any revised version, Juno 5 has new features to explore, and
>old ones that work differently.
Don't forget that IE 5 has been out for over a year and gone through 9
different builds - SO FAR. So yes, it's actually quite a different horse
from v4, its predecessor, in a lot of ways.
George Lunt ..... so. cal.
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