Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by nitrogen on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:28PM
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Seriously... 8GB is an ocean. People were reading and editing HTML email in the days of 16MB.
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Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by efreak on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:16AM
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HTML has changed since then, though. HTML email might basically be stuck with whatever old version of HTML, but nobody writes an HTML renderer just for email--they embed a fully functioning browser engine in the mail client (or write the client itself to run in the browser).