Case in point — you have an important web-based form and a visitor has spent 30 minutes filling it out.  The visitor presses the “submit form” button and the form post fails (because the visitor has lost Internet connectivity or for any number of other reasons).  The visitor gets some error screen, gets very annoyed, and quits.  Form post lost, data lost, customer feedback, potential sale … lost.

This situation can be prevented and these important form posts saved by using some JavaScript (AJAX) techniques in your web form page.

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Ink Signatures enable you to capture the hand written signatures of your web form users and to save these with their form submissions.

• Easy: Users can employ a mouse or stylus on desktop or laptop computers; a stylus or their finger on a mobile device
• Compatible: Works with all major web browsers as well as iPhone, iPad, and Android-powered mobile devices.

If you would like customers to actually sign their name to your web form, rather than merely checking a “checkbox”, now you can — and it is easy with the LuxSci SecureForm service.

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LuxSci has added many new features to the email folder display widget.  The email folder widget is available to all LuxSci customers whose email is hosted with LuxSci.  This widgets can be added to any workspace so that the contents of any email folders, even shared ones, can be viewed and managed along side other information such as address books, calendars, notes, file storage areas, blogs, custom widgets, etc.

The email folder widget has been updated to include:

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LuxSci has offered an “Xpress” WebMail portal for many years.  The portal is fast, simple, and works with most devices because it does not use any JavaScript or cookies, and uses few images.  The Xpress portal is good for security, privacy, and access from legacy devices, as well as over very slow connections.

However, the mobile device landscape is quickly changing.  Starting with the iPhone and its full-featured Safari web browser, to the Android, the Palm Pre, and the availability of browsers like OperaMini on many phones, it is now the case that many “cutting edge” phones actually have fast web browsers that fully support JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, and broadband — all the technologies formerly the purview of the desktop.  Their major drawback, however, is still the very small screen. Many of these browsers work perfectly well with most web sites, including LuxSci’s full-featured WebMail portal; however, it can be problematic and painful to use and navigate sites designed for large displays on these device’s small screens.

Enter LuxSci’s new “Mobile Mode”.  Mobile Mode is a new feature of LuxSci’s regular WebMail interface that is available when it detects that you are accessing it using a mobile device, such as an iPhone.

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LuxSci has given its Task List widgets a complete overhaul, improving their usefulness as well as their usability.   The Task List Widgets provide a simplified and very slick window on your underlying Tasks WebAides, available to anyone with a WebAides license. Like all widgets, they can be included in any workspace, like the Welcome page or the Account Administration page.  They can also be accessed via user-specified hot keys from any page in LuxSci’s site.

Some of the enhancements to the Task List Widget, all of which operate using AJAX, include:

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LuxSci has updated its web-based User Group management interface from the ground up to provide users with a fast, modern, featureful experience.  The User Group WebAides user interface now matches that of WebMail, Address Books, Calendars, Tasks, and Passwords in AJAX-based Web 2.0 speed, data caching, and usability.

User Groups WebAides are very useful in a collaborative environment for:

• Sharing WebAides (i.e. calendars, files, etc.) or email folders with groups of users instead of or in addition to individuals.
• Encrypting individual entries (i.e. files or passwords) such that any group member can decrypt the item, as long as they are a member of the group
• Creating email distribution lists so that it is easy to email everyone in the group.

The major changes that come along with these user interface enhancements include:

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LuxSci has re-written its web-based document management interface from the ground up to provide users with a fast, modern, featureful experience.  The WebAides Documents’ user interface now matches that of WebMail, Address Books, Calendars, and Tasks. Additionally, some new components have been added to make it very easy to upload and download large numbers of files to the Documents WebAides.

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Tagging items has become one of the hallmarks of modern web applications.  Delicious and FireFox allow you to tag your bookmarks, Facebook lets you tag people in photos. Flickr supports tagged pictures. Blogs permit you to tag your posts. The list goes on and on.

Tags are incredibly useful because they enable categorization of items in a dynamic and natural way.  Items can have multiple tags and you can make them up yourself as you go, so that they are meaningful to you and in the context in which you are working.

The odd thing is that tags are not yet very prevalent in most mainstream email programs (except perhaps Gmail) and collaboration tools like contacts, calendars, etc. This is where LuxSci jumps in.  LuxSci has had full tag support since June, 2007; in recent months, tagging has become easier and more powerful due to updates to our GUI (graphical user interface).

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LuxSci has re-written its web-based task management interface from the ground up to provide users with a fast, modern, featureful experience.  The WebAides Tasks user interface now matches that of WebMail, Address Books, and Calendars in AJAX-based Web 2.0 speed, data caching, and usability.  The major changes that come along with these user interface enhancements include:

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LuxSci has supported the specification and use of unlimited signatures (i.e. personalities) in WebMail for many years.  LuxSci’s signatures allow you to customize the from and reply addresses, as well as to add text or HTML "signature" content to your email messages. 

As a result of many client feature requests, LuxSci has made some significant usability and functionality improvements to its WebMail Signatures.  These include:

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