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by castell 3860 days ago
I welcome a Servo based browser with an HTML UI.

An one-page email app running on Servo that is inspired by GMails interface would be great.

At the moment I use Thunderbird, Outlook 2010 and GMail. Outlook has good calendar integration and GMail the better tagging, search function and UX.

Opera 12 had an inbuilt HTML+JS based email client. Moving to Chrome/Blink with Opera 15 they stopped shipping the inbuilt email client.
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rplnt 3860 days ago
Was it really HTML+JS? Because it was fast, many years back (used it just as an RSS reader though). Also, they shipped it as a standalone product[1], but I don't think it ever got updated after that.

1. http://www.opera.com/computer/mail

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gsnedders 3860 days ago
From memory, it was C++, much like the rest of the Opera UI. It used Quick — Opera's in-house cross-platform UI toolkit, and it died (along with the rest of the old Opera) because Quick was heavily entwined with Presto.
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