Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r...
by notpushkin on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:03AM
(#44028465)
Does the email client on Windows still use IE11? (Some older versions might still have significant market share, but I’m not sure it would be for much longer?)
Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r...
by WorldMaker on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:54AM
(#44031151)
"Outlook (New)" (aka "One Outlook") is React Native with a full Chromium webview, and the transition from out-of-the-box Windows-provided "Outlook Mobile" (Windows 8-10) to "Outlook (New)" has mostly completed, but the transition from Outlook (Classic) (aka "Bloated Corporate Outlook") seems somewhat stalled because a few big corporations have extensive plugins and cranky IT admins. (Also Outlook Mobile had a better than IE11 support and also has been Chromium on most platforms, it is "Outlook (Classic)" that continues to haunt us all with its ancient Word-based micro-browser fork of IE.)
Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r...
by notpushkin on Monday May 19, 2025 @12:26PM
(#44031521)
Sometimes I really wish MSFT broke backwards compatibility in the places that matter, not places their corporate customers don’t care about.
Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r...
by WorldMaker on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:59AM
(#44031220)
Google has recently been pivoting AMP which nearly broke the web towards email. It might actually be a better use of AMP than the web, but I'm still skeptical about some of its privacy stance and ad-injection focus: https://amp.dev/about/email
Your standard still needs to render in Outlook on Windows, though, which means you need to support the weird Office version of IE11 as an upper limit.