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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.



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