Re:Thunderbird 68.0
by z3t4 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:08PM
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Webmail could work great offline if we could store more then 5MB on the client.
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> if we could store more then 5MB on the client.
I recently stopped using Slack because their web client started storing 600MB in local storage. If gmail did that too, it would be the last nail in the coffin. I absolutely do not want random (or not-random) websites using my computer to store their data.
It doesn't have to be "let every site store 600 MB or none can store more than 5 MB". Seems like a great thing for a permission really.
Not just a permission but a limit too. If I could set the limit to something reasonable, like 1MB, that'd be fine.
Re:Thunderbird 68.0
by jamesgeck0 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:26PM
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IndexedDB should be a solution to this, but it's not as widely supported as localStorage.
96.5% vs 97.5%, doesn't seem to be the holdback any longer.
Could also use service worker to prime the cache. And generate static pages for each e-mail/thread.
New mail could be pushed using web push.
The problem is the outbox, how to send sent mail once user go online !?