Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
by mid-kid on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:25AM
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> written starting with a browser as a jumping off point
That's thunderbird for ya.
Really the only web-browsery thing a mail client needs is rendering of the email itself (if it's not just plain text, HTML email is an extension!), for which, sure, it's a better idea to use an existing webview. But for the rest of the interface and logic? No.
Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android
by sph on Monday June 13, 2022 @11:41AM
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To be fair, if you're bundling a web browser to render emails, you might as well write your whole UI out of it. Of all use cases of Electron, an email client is probably the least offensive.
That's thunderbird for ya.
Really the only web-browsery thing a mail client needs is rendering of the email itself (if it's not just plain text, HTML email is an extension!), for which, sure, it's a better idea to use an existing webview. But for the rest of the interface and logic? No.