Possible to use Thunderbird/Firefox as Intranet Front End?
thomas.hilburger
as a steady Firefox/Thunderbird user and Typo3 web designer I have
been looking around for information about using FF/TB as a front-end
for an intranet solution for the university I'm working for.
I thought why develop everything from scratch when the perfect tool is
just in front of my nose :D
I'd need some help to get an overview over possibillities with
Extensions, XUL etc.
The infrastructure would be the following:
* there is a central application server on which data of students,
courses etc. are administrted
* a server for a central calendar (accessble via e.g. iCal) is
planned
* an email server (imap/pop3) is running
* a Typo3 "website" for students information etc is planned
besides our existing T3-websites
The Front End should be able to offer an interface for these
functions:
* Offer a single sign-on
* usage of email functionalty
* usage of a calendar
* displaying RSS-Feeds
* connection to social web sites (Facebook)
* displaying contents delivered by Typo3 (HTML sites, forms, with
and without ajax/flash)
* offer a navigation bar for these funcions
* offer a kind of overview page (could be a website, too of
course)
* be a portable appliction
* prevent user from updating (compatibilty issues)
In whole sentences:
Students would have the customized FF/TB installed on theier notebooks
or as portable app on usb-sticks. The client does not need any own
intelligence for organizing access rights etc because the information
are provided by the servers. The intelligence would be needed to
integrate the services visually and technically (navigation,
displaying and interacting). That would make a unified interface for
many services possible ^^
I hope my description can be understood.
I'd like to get estimations to this to know about the possibilities so
that I can start to look for companies/programmers who could help us
building up such a thing.
Greetz from hamburg, Germany,
davis