JoMail has to ability to follow links
in email messages. For example. if a friend sends you a link in an email
message, you can just click on the link and JoMail will follow it for you
just like you were using Netscape or Internet Explorer. This can
be useful as a quick mechanism to view something that someone is talking
about without having to open up Netscape. To test this out, find an email
message with a link and click on it and see what happens. Be patient, at
times, it is a little slow. The screen may go blank and nothing happens
for a little while.
Limitations
JoMail is not designed to browse the
web for you -- this is what Netscape and Internet Explorer have both been
designed to do, and they do a reasonably good job of it. The ability to
browse the web in JoMail can be a small boone or an annoyance. JoMail simply
cannot follow some links. The only way to find out, is to click on a link
and see what happens. If you want your message back, just select the message
again from the list.
Techincal
JoMail will fail when it tries to follow certain more complicated links. What links will JoMail fail for? JoMail cannot follow links that involve javascript in any manner. This takes out a significant portion of the web, but the browsing feature was designed for simple browsing and nothing more. Images come through perfectly and rather complex web pages are displayed nicely. W
When JoMail is following a link, the screen will go blank while it loads document information. If the screen is blank for a really really long time, then the odds are that JoMail cannot open the page. Click on the message again to reload.
There are no Previous and Next navigation buttons for JoMail , so only links can be followed as a means of traversing the web.