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== Key Thoughts == | |||
*Use mozStorage for storing mail instead of the text-based mailbox format, as well as for storing contacts instead of the old mork format. This should make adding new features easier. | |||
*More advanced contact list/ address book. See [http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/04/30/the-coop-allpeers-the-browser-and-its-contact-list/ this AllPeers blog entry]. | |||
*Manage all forms of electronic communication, not just email and newsgroups. That includes IM... | |||
**It would certainly be too much to integrate in a whole IM client (nor should we force the user to use any specific one), but it would be doable to, say, detect my GAIM/Pidgin install and let me search through my IM conversations with a contact just as easily as my emails to/from him. (It's worth pointing out that [http://aimfire.mozdev.org/ one developer] was able to build a basic AIM client as a FF extension in only a few kilobytes!) | |||
*...as well as online forum and blog discussions. | |||
**This would require some integration with FF, but it would be great to be able search through and read all the past online discussions you've been a part of. | |||
*Personal Life Recording. With Lightning, we should be able to record all sorts of time-related data. Something like [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/10/working_like_qlockwork.html Qlockwork] would really help keep track of what I've been working on and remember details of my life that I'd otherwise soon forget. | |||
Some of these might be best left as extensions, but to me at least they'd be killer features. | |||
Note to others: there already is an app that integrates mail with the browser: Seamonkey (the continuation of the old Mozilla Suite). The frontend (GUI) code is different from FF and TB, but the backend code is the same. | |||