Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by krapp on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:42AM
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What's the reason not to, other than not knowing how to build it as native software?
Possibly only to render the HTML in some emails (and why not, then, just open them in the user's existing browser window,) but otherwise, there seems (to me) to be little about email that requires the overhead of a browser engine and associated Node dependencies and whatnot.
A native app could be smaller, faster, and use less RAM.
Possibly only to render the HTML in some emails (and why not, then, just open them in the user's existing browser window,) but otherwise, there seems (to me) to be little about email that requires the overhead of a browser engine and associated Node dependencies and whatnot.
A native app could be smaller, faster, and use less RAM.