Firefox 3 targets online mail

Mike Schroepfer, vice president for engineering for Mozilla said that when the new browser comes out in the middle of the year a punter will be able to write an e-mail while offline, with the data sent later when a user is connected to the Internet. Schroepfer wants to see better integration between the browser and Web-based services so that it is as smooth-running as a desktop application.

Firebadger now works with Zimbra, an open-source e-mail, messaging, and VoIP application. Schroepfer said that if the Mozzarella Foundation managed to score a bit of code from Google and Microsoft, it would be possible to integrate with Gmail and Hotmail too.

He also hinted that later versions of Firebadger will support the JavaScript 2 language, now under development in part by Mozilla's CTO Brendan Eich and the ECMA International standards body.

This will make high-performance Web applications easier to write and assemble for people with less coding expertise.

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