Outlook Web Access - A catalyst for web evolution

re: Outlook Web Access - A catalyst for web evolution

Olivier Hault — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:25:42 GMT

I will like to see the next OWA release written for a new extensible and well documented "front end" framework build on top of ASP.NET (or even better XAML)

re: Outlook Web Access - A catalyst for web evolution

Adam Gates — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:42:52 GMT

Thank you! OWA has been consistently the VERY BEST of E2K and E23k has to offer. Outlook is now completely available via the browser. Wonderful work!

Now time for Word and Excel!!!

Alternate browsers

Rialtus — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:26:30 GMT

Curious question - the intent obviously was to ensure that OWA worked well with IE on Windows, and that's just fine being it's Microsoft. But there is a significant goodness when using "alternate" browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, etc.). Can you elaborate on the thought process that went on in addressing these broswers, as well as what difficulties you had in dealing with a feature rich browser like IE while providing basic functionality to the alternates?

History of Outlook Web Access

load of tosh — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:31:22 GMT

My dev lead Jim has a nice history of OWA on the Exchange blog.&nbsp; He talks a bit about the early...

Alternate browser support

Jim Van Eaton — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:08:58 GMT

We had to almost provide two codebases to support both experiences. One for the rich IE5+ browsers and another for the alternative browsers. This is one of the weaknesses of developing rich applications that many of the AJAX developers discuss. We decided to take a more low risk approach and try and reach as many browsers as we could with the OWA Basic experience. Going forward, this strategy may change since other browsers have evolved and market conditions change. I think this topic deserves a separate blog so stay tuned.

re: @Alternate browsers

Klaus H. Probst — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:35:18 GMT

I'm sure Jim will elaborate on their efforts to cater to "alternative browsers" if you point out a shipping browser that could actually compete with IE5 in 1998/1999.

BTW Jim - great entry. I like reading these 'once upon a time' blog posts very much.

Weekend reading

subject: exchange — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:18:47 GMT

Microsoft Announces AJAX Toolkit Codenamed "Atlas"

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:41:23 GMT

Microsoft invented Ajaxing...

Guardian Unlimited: Onlineblog — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:22:02 GMT

I've been following Ajaxing for a year or so (since Gmail appeared) and am amused to discover that Microsoft invented it for Outlook Web Access in 1998. Microsoft is also taking it further with its Atlas project: The Atlas Client...

Microsoft and AJAX

Vespa — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:52:16 GMT

Microsoft and AJAX

re: Outlook Web Access - A catalyst for web evolution

Amir — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:15:52 GMT

I wanted to find out why only Basic Experience of OWA is available on all browsers on Mac? I know they are referred as down-level clients but never have seen a good detailed description of why Premium experience can't be provided. I would need a feature list (I know ActiveX controls don't work there, neither XML, but need mroe specific info like why they are necessary and which features in Prem. OWA depend on these underlying feature-set) which is not available in Mac browsers which hinders provision of Premium experience. If someone already know of some public resource, please point me to that. Thanks!

the best u are

Gergana — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:18:00 GMT

Your blog is very interesint

Microsoft's Atlas Project

coofucoo zhang — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:07:37 GMT

关注ms的Ajax行为。