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This section describes the process started from the idea to have AJAX templates. The AJAX templates stream of though is split into two sub-streams:
* web services, and
* web services clients
== Web services ==
Web services is the working name of the API that the core provides for non-traditional clients.
== Web services clients ==
Not all web services clients will be clients to the same web services (though ONE API might benefit us). The web services clients are:
: The plain HTML templates
:: The plain HTML templates (which are currently known as TemplatesInSquirrelMail and will remain the default Squirrelmail templates) are the first and simplest client.
: Fast templates
:: A version of the plain HTML templates that is AJAX enhanced in order to be faster than the plain HTML templates by loading only template segments.
: Web application
:: A full blown AJAX web application similar to the new Yahoo! Mail, to Google Mail, etc.
: Flash application
:: Flash has a good way to call php web services.
: Desktop applications
:: The simplest example are the OS X widgets and Vista gadgets. web services would make it possible to create simple such that display different aspects of one or more mail accounts.
: Web sites
:: Web sites can be web services clients. They can integrate different aspects of one or more mail accounts providing higher value for their users.
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