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That like saying making a phone that can take pictures is insane, because it is a phone and those are just meant to make calls.
by chme 7y ago
That like saying making a phone that can take pictures is insane, because it is a phone and those are just meant to make calls.
- DagAgren 7y agoOr, it's like saying that a browser that has a built-in email client is insane. Usually, focusing on doing one thing only is how you make good products.
- chme 7y agoRight, that is a better formulation of that argument: "Not currently in scope of this project" is better than: "This is a clone of X".
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- yyyk 7y agoThe old Opera had an excellent integration with its M2 email client. There's also Seamonkey. Most email programs use a built-in rendering engine anyway, and sometimes browsers can actually use the email code (e.g. MHTML is basically MIME+HTML, HTML sanitization[0], Opera used M2 for RSS support). So a browser having a built-in email client might be undesirable, but it is not "insane". [0]https://frederik-braun.com/firefox-ui-xss-leading-to-rce.html https://frederik-braun.com/firefox-ui-xss-leading-to-rce.htm...
- gwd 7y agoBrowsing the web and reading / sending email are fundamentally different tasks. Twitter and Facebook are fundamentally the same thing. The key difference is that Facebook allows you to limit posts to specific people. Mastodon not implementing a "limited visibility" option would be more like a web browser refusing to implement Private Browsing mode.
- laumars 7y agoI love this example. Off topic but like yourself I too remember when camera phones were first released and most people (including myself) did shrug it off as an insane novelty which would never catch on. It didn't help that the resolution on those things were barely better than the original Nintendo Gameboy camera. It's funny how something that seemed so insane at the time is now the de facto standard way of taking pictures.