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Never mind... seems it is a Chrome-specific web app... "For this reason, the browser version of the email app only works in Google Chrome"

oneplane 9y ago
So it's a local email client. Basically, what we already have but written in a less efficient language...
- throwaway91111 9y ago
  Yea, but this enables things like e2e encryption without losing a search index.
  - blibble 9y ago
    if it's a chrome extension there's nothing stopping a court forcing Google to add a modification for a certain user no different to having your javascript decryption routines done by a website
    - throwaway91111 9y ago
      Sure, but presumably if you're worried about it you can sideload your own version. Nonetheless you're absolutely correct; i would prefer firefox to chrome.
    - j45 9y ago
      I have found Chromium to be a nice alternative to keep local browser apps working as it freezes the browser version instead of automatic upgrades, which have regularly broken web based line of business applications I have been around the past few years.
- freshhawk 9y ago
  A less efficient language with a much better UI toolkit, seems a reasonable trade-off to make for a lot of people.
  - nradov 9y ago
    Better how?
  - mixedCase 9y ago
    > with a much better UI toolkit I just made this as a reply in another thread where the user essentially believed you couldn't have a nice GUI (his example was VS Code) with a native toolkit that's also easy to develop in: https://i.imgur.com/RPr6VMS.png https://i.imgur.com/RPr6VMS.png https://gitlab.com/mixedCase/poc-qml-vscode https://gitlab.com/mixedCase/poc-qml-vscode We've had the tools for a long time in desktop, let's not pretend we don't.
    - qq66 9y ago
      Microsoft has tremendous resources, it's definitely costlier to build a great desktop UI than a great Web UI (but the great Eat desktop UIs are always better).
      - danieldk 9y ago
        Microsoft has tremendous resources, it's definitely costlier to build a great desktop UI than a great Web UI What? Let's not rewrite history. I has been easy and cheap to create desktop UIs for decades, literally. I was using Borland Delphi 1.0 as a 13 year old and could have a basic Windows UI app up and running in ten minutes. There have been many great cross-platform and platform-specific toolkits that are easy to use. E.g. you can teach someone with some Python knowledge how to make basic Qt desktop applications in one hour or so. It's literally as simple as dragging some widgets to a window and writing some lines of wrapper code. I recommend anyone who thinks that developing applications using web UIs is easier/cheaper to look at some Delphi 1.0 videos. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3K_0vjUhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3K_0vjUhk This was how we developed desktop applications 22 years ago on machines with 4 or 8 MB RAM. And it is still a whole lot easier and more efficient than a web app.
        freshhawk 9y ago
- gaius 9y ago
  So it's a local email client. Basically, what we already have but written in a less efficient language... Right. This is as if Outlook was written in VBA and ran inside Word.
dchuk 9y ago
Weird that the screenshots in the article are clearly in Safari: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/superhuman-clients.png?w=1358&h=796 https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/superhu...
- phonon 9y ago
  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneOwnsAMac http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneOwnsAMac
- dmix 9y ago
  Most PSD templates for screenshots are Macbook screens + Safari. Having designed a number of landing pages for startups I'm really not surprised that the designer they hired for their website chose to use that (without considering the current browser support). As the other commenter pointed out it's a safe bet for marketing purposes and looks best aesthetically. But the confusion here could be a real problem for early adopters.
  - nexpure 9y ago
    Designer here. This is accurate. The long story is, this site was mocked a bit before all the final technical details were scoped out for the project. It's in need of a visual refresh to more accurately represent the platforms we use.

oneplane 9y ago

So it's a local email client. Basically, what we already have but written in a less efficient language...

throwaway91111 9y ago
Yea, but this enables things like e2e encryption without losing a search index.
- blibble 9y ago
  if it's a chrome extension there's nothing stopping a court forcing Google to add a modification for a certain user no different to having your javascript decryption routines done by a website
  - throwaway91111 9y ago
    Sure, but presumably if you're worried about it you can sideload your own version. Nonetheless you're absolutely correct; i would prefer firefox to chrome.
  - j45 9y ago
    I have found Chromium to be a nice alternative to keep local browser apps working as it freezes the browser version instead of automatic upgrades, which have regularly broken web based line of business applications I have been around the past few years.
freshhawk 9y ago
A less efficient language with a much better UI toolkit, seems a reasonable trade-off to make for a lot of people.
- nradov 9y ago
  Better how?
- mixedCase 9y ago
  > with a much better UI toolkit I just made this as a reply in another thread where the user essentially believed you couldn't have a nice GUI (his example was VS Code) with a native toolkit that's also easy to develop in: https://i.imgur.com/RPr6VMS.png https://i.imgur.com/RPr6VMS.png https://gitlab.com/mixedCase/poc-qml-vscode https://gitlab.com/mixedCase/poc-qml-vscode We've had the tools for a long time in desktop, let's not pretend we don't.
  - qq66 9y ago
    Microsoft has tremendous resources, it's definitely costlier to build a great desktop UI than a great Web UI (but the great Eat desktop UIs are always better).
    - danieldk 9y ago
      Microsoft has tremendous resources, it's definitely costlier to build a great desktop UI than a great Web UI What? Let's not rewrite history. I has been easy and cheap to create desktop UIs for decades, literally. I was using Borland Delphi 1.0 as a 13 year old and could have a basic Windows UI app up and running in ten minutes. There have been many great cross-platform and platform-specific toolkits that are easy to use. E.g. you can teach someone with some Python knowledge how to make basic Qt desktop applications in one hour or so. It's literally as simple as dragging some widgets to a window and writing some lines of wrapper code. I recommend anyone who thinks that developing applications using web UIs is easier/cheaper to look at some Delphi 1.0 videos. E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3K_0vjUhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3K_0vjUhk This was how we developed desktop applications 22 years ago on machines with 4 or 8 MB RAM. And it is still a whole lot easier and more efficient than a web app.
      - freshhawk 9y ago
gaius 9y ago
So it's a local email client. Basically, what we already have but written in a less efficient language... Right. This is as if Outlook was written in VBA and ran inside Word.

dchuk 9y ago

Weird that the screenshots in the article are clearly in Safari: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/superhuman-clients.png?w=1358&h=796 https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/superhu...

phonon 9y ago
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneOwnsAMac http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneOwnsAMac
dmix 9y ago
Most PSD templates for screenshots are Macbook screens + Safari. Having designed a number of landing pages for startups I'm really not surprised that the designer they hired for their website chose to use that (without considering the current browser support). As the other commenter pointed out it's a safe bet for marketing purposes and looks best aesthetically. But the confusion here could be a real problem for early adopters.
- nexpure 9y ago
  Designer here. This is accurate. The long story is, this site was mocked a bit before all the final technical details were scoped out for the project. It's in need of a visual refresh to more accurately represent the platforms we use.