5 ms·
Thunderbird is already using gecko. You can't do an email client for general public without html rendering.
by xfer 6y ago
Thunderbird is already using gecko. You can't do an email client for general public without html rendering.
- sebmellen 6y agoI’m more concerned about the Electron/Chrome browser monopoly (not that Firefox has done itself many favors lately). Maybe they will pull it off with just gecko, that would be neat.
- KwanEsq 6y agoThey are just mirroring Firefox's (and thus Gecko's) own deprecation of XUL in favour of (X)HTML. Firefox's top level windows are now (X)HTML with XUL elements, and XUL specific elements and code paths are gradually being replaced with standard HTML elements or custom elements.
- u801e 6y agoGiven that the general public has largely moved on to web interfaces or mobile apps for email access, do we really need to render HTML emails in Thunderbird? I have mine set to display messages as plain text.
- brnt 6y agoI wish it weren't so, but more than half of mails I receive are HTML only. I think it's passed station.
- Karunamon 6y agoAs a technical user, how often is the HTML content actually useful to the content of the message? For some anecdata, I'm a heavy user of Mutt, and I get my HTML mails piped through w3m --dump for display.. I might have to invoke a web browser on the content once every few months?