-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:51:20 -0700, "Michael Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a developer on the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), which > provides a TCPSocket interface in javascript (emulated over HTTP using > ajax > and comet.) This TCPSocket allows true bi-directional communication > between > a web browser and an arbitrary tcp server.
Interesting... TCP over HTTP over TCP ;) > Coincidentally, we have just began work on a JavaScript IMAP client. With > it, building a webmail app should be *entirely* a UI concern. The good > news > is that our Socket interface is very stable and is being used in > production > for protocols like IRC for webchat. The bad news is that none of the the > Orbited developers have experience with the IMAP protocol. > > We are putting all of our protocol implementations in the soon-to-launch > js.io project (www.js.io). As soon as we have any kind of IMAP client > prototype, I'll let you know. In the meantime, would anyone be interesting > in helping us develop the imap client? Its 100% pure JavaScript, and will > greatly ease the development of feature-rich webmail, as a webmail > deployment will become a matter of simply running Dovecot, the js.io.imap > client, and an HTML gui. Maybe you can have a look at http://decimail.org/index.html - I never tried it though. Somebody posted a link to it on the Roundcube Webmail mailing list (http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2008-07/0000023.html), that's how it got my attention. Patrick. - -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: E883A005 https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkik1v4ACgkQ7yMg/OiDoAUnrACdExgaUxOVXBaHQ8ZXGKg0pSi3 Mg4AnijrxRfaY5PEMI6lR5e7stgdpqyr =JHZl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
