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Isn't it time for desktop clients to embed a real rendering engine? The isolation on them has reached a good level.
by lozenge 7y ago
Isn't it time for desktop clients to embed a real rendering engine? The isolation on them has reached a good level.
- canofbars 7y agoThunderbird had the best rendering engine of them all last time I checked with the microsoft ones being worse. Even if they did embed a real rendering engine you still have to deal with all those people using office 2010
- jcranmer 7y agoEvery GUI desktop client I'm aware of embeds a real rendering engine. The difficult one is Outlook, because Microsoft made a conscious decision that compatibility between Outlook and Word was more important than between Outlook and web browsers. I believe the Word/Outlook HTML engine was based on IE 5.5.
- chrismorgan 7y agoThe MSO renderer is a buggy and incomplete implementation of HTML 3.2, and I think high-DPI support is the only change of any substance at all in the last twenty years.
- lozenge 7y agoThey could switch depending on Doctype- it wouldn't be the first time they've done it...
- implr 7y agoKMail uses QtWebEngine, which is effectively Chromium.
- AgloeDreams 7y agoApple's mail clients use Webkit under it all, basically Safari, that's why the scores are so high. It's actually an interesting story, In the book `Creative Selection`, Webkit and Apple Mail were really Chicken and Egg-like, with the two being developed for each other with the HTML Editing logic in Mail being the basis of all text fields in iPhone.