The big news is that Laszlo Calendar is now 1.0! After releasing a preview a few weeks ago, we’re thrilled to release 1.0. In 1.0, we’ve added the following features to make your life even easier!

• Event Smartobjects! You can drag an event into an email compose window, where your event will appear as an attachment. While non-webtop users will see it as an iCal file, Webtop users can drag it into their Calendar and it’ll create the event for them
• You can now set reminders so you don’t forget an upcoming event
• You can now change which calendar an event belongs to
• You can now define a URL to link to information about an event
• We’ve added scroll bars so you can see more in Day and Week view
• And we’ve added a “Today” button to make navigating faster and easier

We also added some new features to the other applications, Laszlo Mail is now version 2.2 and Contacts is now version 1.2. The major changes include:

• When you select a contact in Contacts we now give you a button that makes it easy to see what operations you can do with the record
• Picture SmartObjects! You can click on image file attachments to see a preview before downloading. Previews can be shown for all common image formats including .jpeg, .gif, .ping and more
• Improved Contact SmartObjects! You can send contact information by dragging them into the email as an attachment. While non-webtop users will see it as a .vcf file, Webtop users can simply drag attachments into Contacts. If you drag the content to the To, CC or BCC field, the email address will be added to the sender list of the message
• We made the Preferences panel easier to find. With our growing number of applications (and there are more coming!), the preferences panel is now accessible in the upper right corner of Webtop. New improvements will also make it easier for third party developers to add preference settings for new applications
• The time of the last auto-save is now displayed in the footer of the mail compose window

There’s more coming soon, too!

We’re always interested in your thoughts and suggestions. Feel free to let us know what you think about gowebtop and what you’d like to see us add at new features or applications — drop us an email at feedback _at_ gowebtop.com.

Chuq
Webmaster, Laszlo Systems

goWebtop deployment
We have a specific Webtop deployment on www.gowebtop.com. We deploy on Gentoo Linux, x86 64bit hardware with the following software:

• Apache HTTP Server with mod_jk
• Apache Tomcat
• Laszlo Webtop
• Cyrus (IMAP)
• SendMail (SMTP)
• Barracuda (spam identification)

Unlike Laszlo Mail which connects to a variety of IMAP and SMTP servers, we chose to integrate a calendar engine since most of our customers do not already host a calendar server. After evaluating a number of open source and proprietary servers, we decided to integrate Cosmo from the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF).

Cosmo is part of the Chandler project. We liked the fact that we could use the CalDAV standard, and that Cosmo supports publishing a CalDAV collection as a single .ics file that can users can subscribe to via external calendar clients. Also, in evaluating scalability, we found that Cosmo performance outpaced other solutions.

iCal4j

Laszlo Calendar also uses iCal4j, an open source Java library used to read and write iCalendar data streams as defined in RFC2445.

There is a lot to experience on goWebtop but here’s a few highlights:

• Check out the cool transitions between Day, Week and Month views
• Quickly drag and drop in day or week view to quickly create or move events
• Easily edit details for an event in the details panel. Set events to recur, change the start and end time, go all-day etc.
• Add and subscribe to loads of Calendars: Make sure you check out icalshare.com and add whatever interest you.
• Share your Calendar: Easily publish your calendar so others can see it. Just select your calendar, click publish, copy the URL and send it out to friends so they can subscribe to it. Simple.
• Jump around … on the mini-calendar
• Take a step back and admire the newly implemented z-ordered windows for Mail, Contacts and Calendar. Bring any window or app to the front at anytime.
• We’ve also beefed up the help so you can get a good overview of all the features
• Check out some of the screen shots to get a quick idea of what it looks like - recommend you try it and see what it’s like - it’s free
• We’ve also added a FAQ to answer some of the more traditional questions, so let us know if something is missing

This Calendar preview is for exploring, testing and impressing friends, family and pets. While we plan to migrate your calendar entries to future deployments, remember this is beta software, so make sure you keep your important events stored in an alternative location.

More features are coming in the final 1.0 product but are not in this preview release:

• Unique event SmartObject! You will be able to drag an event into an email compose window, where your event will appear as an attachment. While non-webtop users will see it as an iCal file, Webtop users can simply drag attachments into their Calendar.
• Set reminders so you don’t forget an upcoming event
• Handy ‘Today’ button
• Change which calendars an event is associated with

Let us, and everyone else, know what you think — your feedback will help us make it even better.

Super fast delete
OK, so we’ve made deleting multiple messages much quicker than before. Try selecting a number of emails, hit delete and watch them disappear – in a flash!

Mac “Scroll Wheel”
That’s right, but this came for free because of the hard work by the OpenLaszlo platform team. OL now passes the scroll wheel information from the browser to the runtime - way to go. Thanks.

So-called Security
IE7 introduced extra security for downloads, where it would show additional UI (the yellow bar) across the top of the browser with special controls of whether to block or permit downloads from this website. I don’t really understand why the dialog box which you can accept or cancel isn’t enough, but someone at Microsoft thought not. Additionally, when you allow a download using the yellow bar, it reloads the page. No big deal in for an old-school HTML web app, but in a Flash or Ajax application reloading the page loses context. The net result being that when you would download a zip file attached to your email on IE7, sometimes, the first time in a session, when your security setting were set just-so, the app would reload and you would need to go find that particular message again to download the attachment. Ugh. Now, we have a lovely interstitial dialog on IE which prevents that.

When Pop-ups are for Good, not Evil
We also, at long last, added pop-up blocker detection. With pop-up blocking built into the browsers these days, it has become more of an issue for new users that sometimes application interface controls just appear to fail when they happen to be triggering a new window. Now, if your action is being blocked, we’ll let you know that you want to turn off your pop-up blocker — we promise not to abuse you with pop-up ads! And, watch out, IE folks, changing pop-up blocker settings will, of course, reload the page. We added in an extra IE-specific reminder for that. Sigh.

HTML email is here to stay
Once upon a time, email was composed of letters, words and attachments. If you wanted inline images, there was always ascii art. Tables, css, and such were rarely seen in emails 3 or 4 years ago. Now, fancy HTML is found in every inbox. From holiday cards to bank statements, email can look like the colorful pile of paper still delivered by the postman on foot. We’ve always supported viewing HTML for Internet Explorer, the dominant browser, but as Firefox has gained popularity, we plan to address this cross-browser. Naturally, the Flash-browser blood-brain barrier is a minefield of ill-defined and broken behavior. Never fear, we’re building bridges and digging ravines, so Webtop users and develops will be able to navigate without concern. We’re also looking to soup up our HTML editing, but in the meantime, we’ve added the option to attach the original message, rather than forwarding inline when formatting would be lost in translation.

other people’s webmail, and now we’re very excited to focus again on our very own hosted service.

goWebtop is still all about mail and contacts, but there are a few new items:

• Multiple Windows
  
  • Compose multiple messages at once! Really, you don’t have to save the draft you are working on to refer to an email that you have received — just like a desktop mail app (from 1994)
  • Double-click to to read messages in multiple windows.
  • Messages forwarded as attachments open in their own windows.
  • Preferences is now non modal.
• Contacts improvements
  • Concise contact overview.
    When looking at contact details, the initial view shows just the fields for which you have defined values, allowing a single screen view for most situations. When you edit the contact, all the fields are shown.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  • Custom contact fields: you can add your own special fields with custom labels.
    
• New Message Filter Options: you can now copy or delete immediately messages that match a certain criteria.
  
  
• New Junk Mail protection option to delete immediately or just save in the Junk Mail folder
  
  
• Better experience when an HTML message cannot be properly displayed: we now show a button right above the HTML message that has reduced formatting. You can choose to view it as is or open it in a browser window for full fidelity.
• Application “dock” in the header
  
  • New window management: hide windows when you don’t need them, find them later in a handy menu in the header.
  • Quickly access application actions without having the application open from menus in the header.
• Nifty network status indicator
  
• Linux folks get new features: Import Contacts, Filters, Auto-save, and more! With the release of Flash Player 9 on Linux, we can finally upgrade the site for those who use Linux (about 7% of active users)
• and more…
  • Default message view remembers its size
  • Registration with fewer questions and no leaping on the beach.
  • Shiny gloss silver skin with two coats of lacquer and fresh green highlights.

We hope you enjoy it.

the Webtop team

you guys are amazing. your product is amazing, state of the art . Tony ~ Impressive. I’m trying to find things I don’t like and I can’t : ) Morley Chalmers ~ This is absolutely amazing. Jason Baisden ~ Wow !!! Is this for real? This is realy amazing work and rich application. Parag Jain ~ This is very nice. I can’t express in words . ALL THE BEST. Vinod Kumar Kunche ~ I just love it … Just great, my most sincere congratulations. Antônio Carlos de Carvalho Júnior ~ Awesome is all I have to say…. I’m in love again !! Abhishek Prabhu ~ lush software hai : ) Hameed ~ Wow! Nice stuff. Love the lay out. Josh Barker ~ I must to be honest, that is the best interface web that i already have seen. Congratulations. Alcione ~ I would not have believed it unless I saw it. T. Adarta ~ very slick interface , nice work. I’m really surprised to see this digital mail and my eyes wondered to see the layout. Very good job and no other mail can compete this. Hands off to all behind this success. Keep on improvising. THANKING YOU……….. Surendar ~ the site looks amazing! great work..keep going! Ganesh Ramanand ~ very very very nice Weslei Greet ~ working , guys… May I have seen the next generation online technology? Alsor Zhou ~ I am really stunned after seeing the fabulous Interface here and I hope this service is gonna make new dimension in Email Access much better than Google. Shirish ~ Trust me, you don’t need feedback . This is AWESOME! Vineeth ~ Just one word , AMAZING!! Shantanu Gera ~ Team, you guys have done a fabulous job ! Gayumahi ~ This is real cooool! Thanks for your team work. Qin Chen ~ This is the best mail i have ever seen and fast too. thanks and great work. Amazing I should say. Rubin Thomas ~ I think its the most fantastic webmail client i have ever seen… Alex Assouline ~ Wow, What a good effort. I’ll certainly put a hand into this. The game has started with laszlo. I’m sure this project will be a bright one….! Md.Yamin Noor ~ What I see is simply wonderful . Just not expected. Fantastic download speed, great user interface. great, I am sure I will not change to other software very soon now. Shrikant A Sathe ~ I think Laszlo is great. The interface is enchanting and so easy on the eyes. You people are doing a great job! Keep up the good work! Sreyans Jain ~ love it!!!….cool and fast….. Sandeep Venugopal ~ very nice. all usability glitches of other mail services have been rectified here. Abhishek Gupta ~ This is brilliant… Keep up the good work! xx, Erika ~ What a nice features !!! unbelievable… Rahmat Syarif ~ The best webmail experience I’ve ever seen. Congratulations. Fritz Schmitz ~ It’s great….. congratulations. Vinicius Dufloth ~ Fantastic… Nice experiance : ) Osho ~ This is awesome… Gareth Segree ~ It seems wonderful! I’ve never seen such a nice interface! Congratulations. Ugur Bostanci ~ Cool, Maybe there is some hope for the web : ) Andries ~ This is a ultimate experience - nothing else… Nilesh Godhani ~ Any plans to integrate with microsoft web exchange servers to replace their crappy webmail? daniel wilson ~ You have created a good mail… all of the people will be attracted by seeing your mail… Thimma Santharam Balaji ~ Nice! I like the way the application behaves! It feels very responsive, and the amount of data used in communications is minimal. Jerie ~ it’s great and everybody’s got to hear about this. hoaxo13 ~ OpenLaszlo is a wonderful thing. Laszlomail is amazing. Stefan Wirth ~ i love this interface Tahir Khan ~ This is truly sweet! How is it I’ve missed hearing about open laszlo for so long? I was ready to champion Flex 2 at my company, but now … Hmm. George Lippert ~ HANEP!!! (filipino slang -"wow" or "cool" ) Rocky Castaneda ~ I love this. This is the best email interface i’ve seen. Great work guys. Shahidul Izzani ~ Thanx for this Laszlo Mail, i was glad to see because my name is laszlo, my father is also laszlo and we were like whoooww , coool… now my e-mail address sounds coool. Laszlo Gaspar ~ This mail is awesome. So smooth and so easy to use Anwaar Jabr ~ I love what you have done with this application.. it is very cool.. in fact much cooler than the project that I used to work on, meaning the one I got laid off from! Ours was a web based application as well, but it suffered from wegottawriteitourselves-itis, and did not leverage outside technology near as much as possible. If this is an example of what can be done with OpenLaszlo, I am already very impressed. Two thumbs and a big toe up! Johnathan James ~ Gorgeous UI. Nice work. Jon Mundsack ~ Itz fantabuloz … Chetan ~ I will make it short: love from first sight! This service is absolutely amazing. Goldfinger ~ The Greatest Thing in My Virtual Life! Serkan Duman ~ Yes i love the e-mail! Is very beautiful and easy to manage. Congratulations. Amauri Junior ~ You guy are brilliant…The application damn cool … Well done. Henry ~ First impression is it is absolutely Icandy and runs incredible smooth and fast. Crushes Outlook web access. Justin G. ~ Stafford The first word that pops up is "wow". This is the best web based email client I’ve ever tried. I simply can’t find enough words, truly amazing work. Christian Abels ~ Absolutely fantastic! Completely blew me away, cant believe its on the WEB! Great work. Ziad Mannan ~ Very nice. It’s a lot like the new Yahoo! email beta, but this one seems to actually work . This is a great job. I wish Yahoo would junk their email client and let us use your interface instead. Steve ~ One word: Amazing! Rajkumar ~ Just a great job! The UI is right off the design books and indeed pretty fast! Muralidhar Gopalakrishnan ~ Great job guys, elegant, loved the seamless client sign in … Nice UI design… RIck Carmona ~ Incredible technology !! Good Job! : ) Yog Maddog ~ Best webmail i’ve ever used! Nick Cockinos ~ This stuff rocks! Its amazing to see such a UI response! Will consider using Laszlo in near future. Pooran Prasad ~ Thanks for the wonderful email system! I commend you for everything that you have done to create Laszlo! The Honorable Sir Da’Quan Marcelleus Love - Freshman Class President - Varina High School ~ Excellent Work. I believe you will succeed. Edgard ~ yes, this sight seems like an appropriate site Anna Alidon ~ damn this is the greatest interface ever seen, you have done a great work. Brahiti Karim ~ Congratulations you have the best e-mail service on web today. Thank You. Keep it on! Lucas Costa Mendes ~ I like your site i must confess that. Douglas ~ This technology is superb and i muz give my two thumbs up to the developers . I strongly feel this is going to be a hit in the future. Keep it up! Clement Yew ~ Wow! this is the best webmail I have ever seen! Well done! you guys have definitely got something going here … Riaan ~ Great work Guys, Laszlo Mail is really very rocking. Manoj Gupta ~ WOW. this email service fits in the package that’s good enough to be associated with the digital age thanks guys it’s the best. AWESOME. Amar Arora ~ Man, this is completely awesome, I am totally impressed =) Chris Peterson ~ This is awesome, by far the best mail interface I have ever seen. Delip Rao ~ Amazing! Can’t find a better word! Runs faster and smoother then many of my desktop applications … Very impressive! Joacim Boive ~ Like the product, HATE the name! Seriously, I’m going to have to spell "laszlo" for everyone I verbally tell my email address to. Even I have am having a hard time remembering how to spell laszlo. Kurt Basham ~ looks great!!! I’m still in shock , hehe : -) monami ~ The email system is simply mind blowing . I am just flabbergasted. C.V.~ Ramachandran awesome stuff.. good work people Rishi ~ Great work, I love it! : ) Willi Webe ~ Halluo! I like this e-mail tool. It is awesome. How about adding more excellence? Andey Lim Qi Wen ~ surprised!! and amazed!! its fast and with pleasant features, and the best part is its running this way in a web browser. Vijay Wadnere ~ laszlo is WICKED! Muhammad Osman ~ COOL FEATURES- BUT COULDN’T YOU FIND A NAME LESS POLISH. Marsel Cara ~ This is great!!! I love the look and feel of Laszlo mail. randell ~ It’s impressive! That’s a great job! I will use it : ) Quirino Zagarese ~ Hi Awesome Laszlo team , You e-mail client is really very good. I feel comfortable to use this. Madhu Sudhanan ~ What I think about this email. This BEATS Gmail and possibly all email systems / client on the planet. !! Mahesh Vaidya ~ Laszlo Mail Team thanks! I came from china and I like this mail very much. It’s so wonderful! Xubin ~ I can not believe what I see . thx ~ Farkas Imre Oh Yes this is really cool. ajax rulz ~ Kalle Your simply superb and the best. my very big thanks for your team. Prabhakar Varma ~ laszlo mail is simply great Chandu ~ Wow! What a fantastic interface. I wish my current provider had such a slick interface for webmail! Michael X ~ Very well designed and pleasing to the eye. Eric Herron ~ Your RIA framework kicks all kinds of ass . I’m beyond impressed. I’m blown away. John ~ I was looking the mail, n’ woa!! It’s so awesome! I like it. Fast, easy, cute, professional. Woa woa woa!!! Eneried Bluetterfly ~ great job, stunning. Santhosh ~ I am sorry for not replying to your letter sooner. I am really satisfied with your servise. It’s very good!! It was what we were expecting. You have done a marvelous job! You must have done well to have achieved this success. Since efforts always bring reward, so continue trying! I am sure you won’t be stopped . With many wishes for your success. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart. Chan Lunner Man!!! ~ Laszlo Mail is so nice!!! amazing application. thanks for all ~ Flavio Luiz Mendes You guys rock. Keep it up. Adam Hyder ~ chendongshuai is a man Chendongshuai ~ Laszlomail is great. It is very easy to move around and appears to be more intuitive to work with than a lot of the mail upgrades in other webmail sources… Richard D Blaha ~ Impressive !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great Job guys. Great job!!!! ~ Paul Bliss …i can find only one polish word to describe it - " zajebiste ". blotko ~ really great idea and great technology … it is really simple to use … Paul Bliss ~ This is a excellent program! I have never seen webmail that runs so fast and so well. Keep up the good work! Paul Draves ~ this is awesome… very awesome. Is great, really great! And very nice! Ai Man ~ Wow, I really love this email client in flash! It’s quite amazing! It’s got everything , I just imported all my Gmail contacts, and now I’m saying bye-bye to Gmail! Sebastian Spanache ~ I am speechless : -) This is really cool - great job! wrwer ~ This is pretty amazing. I am excited about this . I don’t know what kind of feedback you are receiving but I have nothing but praise. The hours of work had paid off and you have created something truly magnificent . I will tell every designer/developer I know about Open Laszlo and if they have heard about it already, you can be guaranteed that we will be discussing the possibilities with this. Thanks. Paul ~ Laszlo mail is excellent . I like the layout and colour combinations very much. The animations for each click is really superb. This should be still developed so that this becomes the leading mail server. Karthik ~ I am very impressed by laszlo mail: it works very well and the overall experience is very smooth . Andrea ~ not too complex at all, user friendly, cool design and a good support section. well done. Dennison J P ~ First time that I see anything like this on the Web. It definitely makes impression : ) Cool work, guys. Eli Rosenblum ~ I think that you are doing an excellent job !!! Miguel Espejo ~ also.. saves us from refreshing ourself… Done really a good job guys… Vijaya ~ You have certainly raised the bar for web based email GUI. Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and others should all take note and be very nervous. That said; I was a little bothered with the amount of time it took to load the first time I signed up. But soon realized it was only that initial set up and soon enjoyed fast and very smooth function and processes. Very impressive! A beautiful mix of function, speed and design . Well done! Fungi Mushroom ~ It is a gr8 . Looking completely different from other mail services i have seen. Keep it up.. and Try to provide it FREE for ever.. Kumaran ~ that’s a very very cool tool. respect!!!!! Andi ~ Wow ! It’s beautiful . Congratulations ! Luis pirir ~ This email application is fantastic. I love using it for my "personal" emails. Thanks a lot! M Todd Smith ~ Laszlo mail is very cool - simply amazing! How long did the development take (e.g. how many man-hours)? Keep on the great work. Michael Halloween ~ great user interface and extremely fast . well done to the team. avtar mahajan ~ (Ooooh, the feedback with shift of focus by tabbing is soooooooooooooo sexy ! *grin*) Bernard D. Tremblay ~ Laszlo Team…I am VERY impressed with your email. I have been looking for an email site like yours, and spent many hours hoping i would find one. I will recommend your email to EVERYONE I KNOW!!!! I will be a loyal and faithful user for a long long time! ~ Christine Maybee Instant impression is "Wow! It looks and feels great" ~ Martin Holy crap, this is the coolest web mail I have ever seen! Bryan Hord ~ You must get a million email messages like this , but this is too exciting, so here’s 1,000,001: Laszlo is cool cool stuff. I’ve been trying to get my head around starting with RIAs, and this seems like the ticket. Thank you thank you for this great technology. I’m going to go play with caffeine and code for the next 4 days now. I’ll sleep next weekend… Cliff ~ Application for laszlo mail is absolutely fantastic.. faster than outlook express and that’s pretty fast.. I am amazed .. electrick knight ~ This is Awsome! This is best of the best Web-based email interfaces…I wish my ISP standardizes on it. Thank you very much for a job excellent done . Yaagoub Al-Nujaidi ~ I have just a simple word to say: -= U N B E L I E V A B L E =- :-0 ~ Wendell P. Silva ~ why would I ever want to install another email client on my PC? Rafal Jacyna ~ This is one amazing thing I’ve ever seen.. So much faster then ever b4.. Am I on the web or using Lotus Notes/Outlook.. Looks so much better.. U guys have done some crazy stuff to make it look like this.. Great jobs guys keep it up.. Pranav ~ I’m impressed. No words to describe the experience. Shashank Shingornikar ~ Pretty cool application. It runs nice and has an easy to use interface. Thanks for a great site. Brenda M. Young ~ This is really very good. The most appreciated free mail site till now was gmail but I think now Laszlo mail is incomparable . Very nice interface and amazingly quick. Yahoo could learn a lot from this. Neil Murphy ~ I have been on Yahoo Mail Beta and Windows Live Mail and these do not hold a matchstick, let alone a candle to LaszloMail. Even desktop mailers like Outlook are being called into question. With such lightning speed my email checking time is something I look forward to. I would need serious rehab to get me unhooked from this. I hope this demonstration stays permanent because I have kissed all other mailers goodbye…seriously. A big applause for a job well done. Musa Opiyo ~ I’m a msn and yahoo/att mail user. I have to say that laszlo mail has the best gui interface I’ve seen so far. Keep up the good work. Noe Arzate ~ Hail! This email is great!… i think i’ve found my new default email account. Francisco Hernandez ~ I just have to say WOW. Hands down beats the big guys like hotmail and gmail! I am extremely impressed! Curtis Brown ~ I am totally blown away by this Laszlo! This is (will be) the next best thing for web application..way better then Flash. Roger Trier ~ very nice.. keep it up..My best wishes to all who have invloved to make this a wonderful one Manoj Babu.B ~ Works great, and it’s freaky . Igor ~ This is Amazing. I have tried the beta version of Yahoo and hotmail.But this totally rocks.They may increased functionality but they are nowhere near to being a Desktop application as Laszlo is. Laszlo is damn responsive . Dhawal Shah ~ WOW. This is brilliant ;-) Nilesh ~ Wow, I would like to buy the team a drink …. The hours alone that was put in to this project "Oh my God!!!!" Great Work!!!!!!!! Now go kick the crap out of aol……….. Yes your team is ready for that scale of production…. Chris Francis ~ It’s great… the most beautiful email interface in the web . Excelent… Cris Sovi ~ Thank you for making me part of Laszlo Mail its really awesome. Vikram Bhatla ~ This is amazing… Can’t believe this , so close to my desktop applications. ~ Ramanathan WOW! This is bloody awesome ! very nice implementation. Chris Rudolph ~ This the best webmail i have ever used so user friendly and so cool…. Linda Momodu ~ This is the best email manager I have seen!! I am telling everybody in Brazil to use it!! Rafael Coelho ~ i’m in love! Katie Pula ~ I am totally stunned . This is a wonderful piece of software and a great proof of the capabilities of the OpenLazlo framework. We just dropped the plan to develop our frontends in Flex. ; ) Love&Respect. Peter Horn ~ WOW! This just has to be the beginning of a revolution in web development . Andre van Rooyen ~ You guys are doing a great job. All of a sudden gmail sucks. Keep up the excellent work. Ravi Shanker ~ This is one of the most amazing RIAs I’ve ever seen. The right-click options make it truely desktop like. Well Done. ~ Ronnie Fantastic, much better than Zimbra! Paul Jardine ~ Its really nice… see this as the future of the internet . Leo Rockin ~ lightning quick interface which looks good in Firefox & IE. Plenty of features & goodies, we like this a whole lot. Loada Bollocks ~ This is a hats off product… Great work Team. Paul Dinesh Joseph ~ Hey, i think your mailbox is quite nice! zhoutao ~ Gmail is cool but this is cooler. This is perfect… Congratulations. Emre Mater ~ Great functionality, fascinating interface. Beats all big brand webmail systems. Balazs Szekely ~ well guys, it seems that this application is simply GREAT! Hornyak Csaba Laszlo is the future! Rachman Ibrahim ~ Wow I am absolutly amazed! Super application and SO RESPONSIVE!! Patrick Wolf ~ Lazlo Mail is the best thing that i know , it’s just………..great. Great Job! Gustavo ~ This is great! I’ve just checked this out and this is awesome! LASZLO RULES! Karren Ryan ~ You guys ROCKKKKKKK! This is what an "Web Application" should look like. Anonymous ~ I have to say that this is the coolest interface I’ve ever seen for email. I have a gmail account that I thought had the best interface… Until I started using this. Wow. Anonymous ~ Very impressive from a visual and functional perspective. I would love to integrate this into our current situation. Anonymous ~ By far the best webmail inerface ever!!! Anonymous ~ laszlo mail iz so cool i used to use outlook express but laszlo mail iz two thumbs up. Anonymous ~ It’s running very well, I really love the user interface. Beauty … Anonymous ~ Like it?? I love it!!! Goddamn, why didn’t you guys get there before GMail!!!!!! Congrats, wonderful product. Anonymous ~ Wow, I have to say I was blown away… this email app not only supports all your basic features but it’s beautiful looking too! Anonymous ~ Laszlomail is simply amazing. Fast. Easy on the eyes. Powerful. Anonymous ~ This is probably the first email client with such intuitive and jazzy interface that I have ever seen! Manish Vohal ~ I fell in love with the interface of Laszlo Mail as soon as a friend showed it to me! It’s much cleaner and more streamlined, and much less clunky than the other free mail services. I am switching to use Laszlo Mail as my primary roaming email account. Keep up the good work! Scott Rose ~ First allow me to say congratulations, great job, and keep up the good work! You have set the standard for UX in the webmail domain, without a doubt . Anonymous ~ Awesome, Laszlo mail is the best mail ever its even faster than hotmail. great job keep up the good work. Anonymous ~ This is just amazing… i think this future of rich interface email system Anonymous ~ You only need a few minutes to realize that Laszlo Mail’s interface beats the pants off of those offered by all other online webmail providers today…wonderful job you guys. Anonymous ~ This is great. You have out done Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and others. Anonymous ~ I feel compelled to tell you how thoroughly impressed I am. Anonymous ~ Thanks! This is the best looking email I have ever seen, and no pop ups or nuisance ads!!. Thank you, very much for a lovely product and skillfully designed interface . I will tell my friends about you. Vic.~ Laszlo Mail is cool…. Thanks for starting a revolution in the RIA space… Anonymous ~ That’s awesome. Thank you. You just made the difference between my being able to use Laszlomail for some things here and there versus using it for everything, all the time. Much appreciated. Alora C. Chistiakoff ~ This completely rocks my socks . Impressed as hell! Great work. Don B. ~ I’m very excited for your wonderful webmail interface. I hope you should be the best email provider over the world not only for your pretty interface but also for your stable services. Thanks. Jeff ~ I love your product. Way ahead of any competition. -Nax ~ My sky level appreciations for your team. It is amazing and very interesting. Venkat ~ This is the nicest web mail interface that I have ever seen. I run a small web hosting company and I have seen many. Kudos to you and your development team. Jay ~ its way cool . I just wanted to say that its great to see such a useful tool after such a long time. Sanjay ~ It is Ultimate… I can’t say more than this though !!! Well Done : ) Shiva ~ ‘like’… You’re kidding?!? This is AWESOME! i definitely LOVE it! great work folks… definitely GREAT! M. Rudolph

Almost three years ago, when we did initial usability testing on Laszlo Mail, we worried that people wouldn’t understand that they could drag-and-drop in a web application. Would people be able to recognize traditional cues and forget that they were on a web page? Not only did people immediately grasp how to use the application, but they complained that *double* click didn’t work — this is not the Jakob Nielson web. A later round of focus groups revealed: people aren’t forgetting they are on a web page, most people (and I’m speaking of regular folk, not us techies) don’t even mark the difference between webmail and a desktop email client. They just go to their mail. Some of them double-click on Outlook, others go to their Bookmarks, but the distinction lacks the significance that I had assumed. More significant than client-side caching or user interface responsiveness is that the folks with the bookmarks can access their mail anywhere.

The real WebOS work going on supports what regular folk just expect from the web. Why wouldn’t a web application work just like any other software? People are seeing rich, dynamic graphical user interfaces when they use an ATM. They certainly don’t expect any less when they go to their bank’s web site.

• auto-save composed messages (yay!)
• tab order greatly improved (yay!)
• auto-suggest improved
• tab key works more predictably when addressing a message
• # of new messages displayed in browser titlebar (yay!)
• improved right-click menus
• contact groups update automatically when updating contact records
• editing a draft or sent message no longer adds the default signature
• optional sound when new messages arrive
• bunch o’ bug fixes

Enjoy! Report back!