{"id":2300,"date":"2012-09-26T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T18:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:12","slug":"a-glimpse-of-a-new-address-book-for-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/a-glimpse-of-a-new-address-book-for-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"A glimpse of a new address book for Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on a new address book for Thunderbird.<\/p>\n

And I’m making progress.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve reached a point where I feel like the back-end can do something useful, and I want to start worrying about how the front-end works and feels and functions.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now I’ve got a web-based super-early prototype for you to try.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Some caveats:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Bear in mind this thing is super early, and super incomplete.<\/li>\n
  2. The primary goal of this version of the prototype is to determine if the general layout makes sense<\/li>\n
  3. Adding contacts, and adding new fields to existing contacts does not work<\/li>\n
  4. Expect hacky hacky crap code if you look inside the mockup. Here there be monsters.<\/li>\n
  5. The menu button in the right-top corner does not work<\/li>\n
  6. I’ve only tested \/ developed in Firefox. Other browsers are not supported, and I don’t plan to sweat about it too much.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Wow, so it sounds like this thing doesn’t do a whole lot. So what does it do?<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. It loads a list of 500 fake contacts for you to browse through.<\/li>\n
    2. It allows you to see the email addresses for each contact that has an email address<\/li>\n
    3. Simple searching works<\/li>\n
    4. Different contact categories can be viewed<\/li>\n
    5. Gives you a sense of how the layout would be. Hide Firefox’s navigation bar for bonus points!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      There’s also a big fat FEEDBACK button at the top of the mock. Please give me feedback.<\/strong> Or click here to go to the form directly<\/a>. Am I heading in the right direction?<\/p>\n

      Here’s the link to the mock-up. Give it a whirl!<\/a><\/p>\n

      And here’s the Github repository if you want to cry while reading my crappy mockup code.<\/a><\/p>\n

      Expect more of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I’ve been working on a new address book for Thunderbird. And I’m making progress. I’ve reached a point where I feel like the back-end can do something useful, and I want to start worrying about how the front-end works and feels and functions. Now I’ve got a web-based super-early prototype for you to try. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[861,862],"tags":[934,935,96,465,1030,35,70,867,1029],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla-2","category-thunderbird","tag-address-book","tag-contacts","tag-ensemble","tag-feedback","tag-mockup","tag-mozilla","tag-prototype","tag-thunderbird-2","tag-wireframe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-B6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}