This is an artifact of a time when conversation elements would pop in
and out of the dom at a moment's notice, and thus needed to rebind their
event listeners regularly.
Previously the conversation window would query the background page
for a model id and then fetch the conversation. Instead, we can fetch
the conversation before opening the window, which simplifies the front
end scripts and avoids creating multiple copies of the same model.
Unless the background page fetches the latest details of a conversation
before updating it, it may clobber or nullify some attributes e.g., the
contact's name.
When a new message arrives, if its conversation is not already opened,
the background page opens it. If it is alrady open the window is
focused. Finally, the 'message' event is triggered, resulting in
1. the inbox refetches conversations
2. all conversations fetch new messages
TODO: only send this event to the target window
Simplifies the grunt watch task for sass. Renames sass partials with
leading underscores. Flattens stylesheet directory. The only remaining
raw css file is options.css.
Move globally-relevant styles to _global. Shrink overall font size.
This collection is just an in-memory indexer used for typeaheads. For
display, the matching models are added to a separate collection. Thus,
the order of the elements in the typeahead collection does not matter.
lilia