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I'm not totally sold on having landed on a bad toolset. Recently I've been looking at email and tools like it - messy, sometimes ugly tools that have withstood
by themartorana 10y ago
I'm not totally sold on having landed on a bad toolset. Recently I've been looking at email and tools like it - messy, sometimes ugly tools that have withstood the test of time. People try to "fix" and "disrupt" it all the time, but it's pretty good as it is, and its resiliency is a testament to that.
I don't have a fully-formed hypothesis, and I like native apps better than WebKit/electron based apps just like the next guy, but there has to be something to it, no?
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThe defining characteristic of e-mail and "tools like it" is that they come from pre-Web era, and don't touch the modern web with a ten foot pole (the HTML was grafted on-top of perfectly good e-mail protocol, but is in no way a part of it).