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> Electron would be a deal breaker You say that like HTML emails don't exist. If the client has to embed a web view anyway...

jasonkostempski 8y ago
An small library for viewing static HTML is nothing compared to a virtual machine and dynamic rendering engine constantly causing unnecessarily high demand on memory, CPU and battery.
darpa_escapee 8y ago
My laptop has a limited amount of memory, CPU time and battery life.
- dentemple 8y ago
  So... you make it a point not to read html emails on it?
  - jlgaddis 8y ago
    FWIW, I can read HTML e-mails just fine via mutt in an SSH session. One doesn't need Chrome or Firefox to read them.
    - sp332 8y ago
      Could you go into a little more detail about this setup?
      - boomlinde 8y ago
        Not GP, but there are browsers that can render and dump HTML to plain text, like Lynx. You can of course also run remote X programs, but that seems a bit clunky.
      - pwg 8y ago
        Here is an example: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mutt-html.html http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mutt-html.html
Nadya 8y ago
I'm an extreme niche, so I recognize that an email client that intends to be used by the general population would need it, but why would I even want to see HTML emails? Those are 105% of the time just marketing bullshit. Emails are either in plaintext with friends/families/clients/people or have a single link that I can copy/paste to verify an account on a website. As it stands, I never download images in my emails anyway. A few sites have tried serving the account verification code as an image and I just won't validate my account if that's the case. Designed emails using HTML are used by marketing teams - not by people. I don't care to read emails from marketing teams "as intended to be viewed". Show me the email and let me read an email that's just a bunch of plaintext markup.

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> Electron would be a deal breaker You say that like HTML emails don't exist. If the client has to embed a web view anyway...

by callahad 8y ago

jasonkostempski 8y ago
An small library for viewing static HTML is nothing compared to a virtual machine and dynamic rendering engine constantly causing unnecessarily high demand on memory, CPU and battery.
darpa_escapee 8y ago
My laptop has a limited amount of memory, CPU time and battery life.
- dentemple 8y ago
  So... you make it a point not to read html emails on it?
  - jlgaddis 8y ago
    FWIW, I can read HTML e-mails just fine via mutt in an SSH session. One doesn't need Chrome or Firefox to read them.
    - sp332 8y ago
      Could you go into a little more detail about this setup?
      - boomlinde 8y ago
        Not GP, but there are browsers that can render and dump HTML to plain text, like Lynx. You can of course also run remote X programs, but that seems a bit clunky.
      - pwg 8y ago
        Here is an example: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mutt-html.html http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mutt-html.html
Nadya 8y ago
I'm an extreme niche, so I recognize that an email client that intends to be used by the general population would need it, but why would I even want to see HTML emails? Those are 105% of the time just marketing bullshit. Emails are either in plaintext with friends/families/clients/people or have a single link that I can copy/paste to verify an account on a website. As it stands, I never download images in my emails anyway. A few sites have tried serving the account verification code as an image and I just won't validate my account if that's the case. Designed emails using HTML are used by marketing teams - not by people. I don't care to read emails from marketing teams "as intended to be viewed". Show me the email and let me read an email that's just a bunch of plaintext markup.