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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by hug on Monday March 26, 2018 @08:34PM (#16684095)
The answer to this is fairly simple: Offline access to email. You need a client for this, and an arbitrary browser won't do.

Solved problem on iOS and Android with whatever mail app you want to use, but those are of course apps.

Solved problem on the PC with Outlook or "Gmail Offline", but "Gmail Offline" is a chrome-only feature so is, as far as I'm concerned, an offline email client built into Chrome, not a feature of Gmail per-se. See also: Any IMAP mail client.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by abritinthebay on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:24PM (#16694067)
An arbitrary client won’t do either. It would have to be a specific one.

So now that we’ve removed the need for an arbitrary client in both cases why can’t localStorage/etc solve this to most users satisfaction?

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