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<p>It's been a long time coming (about a decade!) but today was the
day we could finally remove the last pieces of the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/XUL/Tutorial/Introduction_to_RDF">RDF</a>
usage from the Thunderbird code base. The whole rdf folder was
sent to bit heaven freeing up around half a megabyte in <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/86a80299d215568ae2ab36526883a88dc735786b">one
commit.</a> <br>
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<p>What does it mean? Less code to maintain, and code that's easier
to work with and understand. Folder lookup was one of the last
pieces that depended on it, and folders is really used all over
the place. More modern ways of looking up messages and storing
messages can now be explored.</p>
<p>Thanks to Ben Campbell for pushing it over the finishing line!</p>
<p> -Magnus<br>
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