Re: Thunderbird roadmap for the next version

Andy Burns <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:07:30 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeff Layman wrote:

> Could someone explain what this means?
> "Move the localization platform to Fluent, the same that Firefox 
> migrated to."

Using Fluent to handle local translations of text within TB/FF

<https://www.projectfluent.org>

> I'm also somewhat concerned by "Work on making Thunderbird a web 
> application continues in 2021...". 

I wondered about that too

> If this means turning TB into a 
> "Webmail" type application, then I'll continue staying with 68.10.0.

I don't *think* it means that, probably just instead of XUL it will use 
standard HTML/JS/CSS for its UI, but without being run from a web-server 
like gmail, hotmail etc