developerWorks Lotus: Introducing IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1 Web Access Lite mode

May 12 2008

A detailed new article covering the use of Domino Web Access lite mode.

Lotus Domino Web Access Lite is primarily intended for users accessing Lotus Domino Web Access over slower network connections, such as when traveling. Users accessing Lotus Domino Web Access at kiosks, where typically no design information is cached, also benefit from this new mode. Some developing nations have prohibitively expensive high-bandwidth networking costs, so in these regions, Lotus Domino Web Access Lite can provide access to mail without the need for a high-bandwidth network.

This article provides an in-depth introduction to Lotus Domino Web Access Lite, including accessing Lite mode, navigating the user interface, and working with your mail, calendar, and contacts. In addition, this article covers some of the functionality available in Lite mode, such as the rich text editor, type-ahead, spell check, and the support console, and it discusses the architecture and performance results of Lite mode.
Did you know that later this year, the "iNotes" brand will return instead of using Domino to describe DWA?

Link: developerWorks Lotus: Introducing IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1 Web Access Lite mode >

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  1. 1  Yancy Lent http://www.yancylent.com | 5/12/2008 4:35:28 PM

    Interesting...

    Posted by Εδ Βριλλ at 03:29:00 PM | 0 Comments

    Location: Αθήνα, Ελλάδα

  1. 2  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 5/12/2008 4:40:16 PM

    Interesting because...that's where I am? I have a tradition of trying to adopt the local spelling of a location I'm in, and when it is a character-set that isn't English, I've done the name thing like that, too. I'm leaving Athens tomorrow, though...

  1. 3  Nathan T. Freeman http://nathan.lotus911.com | 5/12/2008 4:41:04 PM

    "Did you know that later this year, the "iNotes" brand will return instead of using Domino to describe DWA?"

    Why yes.... yes I did.

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 5/12/2008 4:56:02 PM

    ok, that just leaves 2499 other daily readers who might not have. :)

  1. 5  Vaughan Rivett http://st1.rivettassociates.com/Web/Vaughans.nsf | 5/12/2008 5:02:15 PM

    Do you know when IBM will have a version out which will support the Apple browsers such as Mozilla on Apple and Safari on Apple?

  1. 6  Yancy Lent http://www.yancylent.com | 5/12/2008 5:04:21 PM

    Got it.

  1. 7  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 5/12/2008 5:04:47 PM

    @5 Firefox is already supported and has been since Domino 7. Safari is waiting on some technical issues, but should be officially supported in 8.5

  1. 8  Adam Smye-Rumsby  | 5/12/2008 6:57:35 PM

    Glad to hear the iNotes brand is making an official comeback, I always thought it was snappier than even "DWA".

  1. 9  Colin Williams  | 5/12/2008 8:28:35 PM

    iNotes = great news!

    Learning that I live in a 3rd world country = *sob*

  1. 10  kevin  | 5/12/2008 9:35:29 PM

    Why the name change? Our users just got use to dwa

  1. 11  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 5/12/2008 9:54:57 PM

    @10 - Because that is what IBM does to confuse us ;-)

  1. 12  Gerald Mengisen  | 5/13/2008 12:14:04 AM

    @10 - ditto

  1. 13  Tim Lorge http://www.groupwarenews.com | 5/13/2008 12:36:18 AM

    Oh Dear God WHY? Can't you guys get a name and stick with it? Please just tell me how soon before Quickr is renamed QuickPlace? This is why we keep looking like schmucks ... we have no clue as to what our products are even called. I'm starting a Novena of clarity for everyone at Blue. The question now becomes to what Saint do I pray? I am WAY beyond annoyed right now.

  1. 14  Julian Woodward http://blog.woowar.com | 5/13/2008 2:07:18 AM

    "iNotes" was always a more Lotus-y name. "DWA" is an IBM-ism, and a rip-off of (sorry, inspired by) Microsoft's OWA 'Outlook Web Access' naming.

    The name change will be a little disruptive ... but worth the pain to give back to the Domino product line the distinct identity that it was being stripped of. I welcome it.

    Also, surely the iNotes name will appeal to Mac fans, where iEverything iHas iAn iI iIn iFront iOf iIt.

    ;-)

    PS @3 - this was announced at Lotusphere '08 was it not?

  1. 15  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 5/13/2008 3:06:18 AM

    Aaaarggh, I've spent the last three years correcting people who say "iNotes" ;o)

    Mind you, not as much time as I spend correcting people who say / write "Quick-arrr" and "QuickR". Someone at LCTY asked me what the significance of the capital 'R' is - there is no capital 'R' so there is no significance.

  1. 16  Henning Heinz  | 5/13/2008 3:17:47 AM

    I would not be surprised if DWA also gets commonly used in a high-bandwidth network.

    The advantage of IBM rebranding is that you normally can completely ignore them if you like. DWA wasn't that bad but Julians explanation let me think that iNotes is the better name.

    And the Quickr name at least gives me hope that one day it will become really quick ;-)

  1. 17  Andy Stewart  | 5/13/2008 4:24:43 AM

    No matter what we tell our users, they still call it Webmail.

  1. 18  Fr@nk  | 5/13/2008 6:55:13 AM

    "Some developing nations have prohibitively expensive high-bandwidth networking costs, so in these regions, Lotus Domino Web Access Lite can provide access to mail without the need for a high-bandwidth network."

    Most people living in developing nations can also not effort the costs of a Lotus Notus User Account and will use cheaper or free alternatives, such a GMAIL or Hotmail.

  1. 19  Thomas Schulte http://www.welovenotesbut.com/blog | 5/13/2008 7:06:08 AM

    @16 Yes thats why the AS/400 is still the AS/400 for most of the folks out there despite of the permanent rebranding IBM has given to it during the last 8 or so years.

    From Wikipedia ....

    The IBM System i (formerly known as iSeries, AS/400, and Application System/400) was a midrange system platform produced by IBM. It was officially introduced as the AS/400 in 1988. It was then renamed to the eServer iSeries in 2000 as part of IBM's e-Server branding initiative. In 2006, the platform was rebranded to System i.

    In April 2008, IBM announced a further rebranding of the System i and its integration with the System p platform. The unified product line is called IBM Power Systems.

  1. 20  Peter Lardas  | 5/13/2008 8:03:52 AM

    Not to nit-pick, but.

    Εδ Βριλλ

    In Greek this would be pronounced Eth Vrill, with the "th" pronounced with a "hard" "th" as in "the".

    the Greek "delta" is actually pronounced "thelta", and the "beta" is pronounced "veeta".

    To make a "Dee" sound, you would need a consonant combination, νδ - "nee", "thelta". A "bee" sound would be the combination of "μβ". "mee", "veeta".

    So... Ενδ Μβριλ. Όπα!

  1. 21  Keith Brooks http://lotustech.blogspot.com | 5/13/2008 11:18:31 AM

    Agreed bad renaming/branding every version is not very productive.

    Then again what genius thought no one had heard of an as/400 or aix or mainframe and they needed a totally unbranded or non-aware name?

    Such is life, in the meantime I go back to helping my client that lost the cert passwords.

  1. 22  Bob Warth  | 5/13/2008 11:46:04 AM

    How about going back to calling it Shimmer?

  1. 23  Ports http://www.mrports.com/ | 5/13/2008 1:23:15 PM

    I think it is a mistake to go back to iNotes branding. You are accessing Domino not Notes. *sigh*

  1. 24  Niels J. Hansen  | 5/13/2008 2:52:09 PM

    @23 So the new name should be iDomino...? Which would leave iNotes to the iPod support we are all waiting for. Or no that is DWA...

  1. 25  Steven Kennett  | 5/14/2008 10:02:20 AM

    We have inotes running through an iframe in the Websphere Portal, so our users think it's Portal mail ! Why do I bother !