On Tue, Dec 23, 2014, at 08:34, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > I should elaborate... > > IMAP makes the server do a number of things that don't really serve the > user, and that most clients don't use or use very little, but that cannot > be skipped because a significant number of clients rely on them (mostly > they rely on them in stupid accidental ways). > > Compared to aoxexport, IMAP clients are very slow through aox. > Fantastically slow in some cases. > > Is that because of IMAP's misfeatures? Or rather because of typical > client > implementations? I don't think it matters; JMAP could well be closer to > aoxexport than to IMAP in performance. > > Mark, can you look and see whether you think JMAP is amenable to a pure > javascript implementation? > > Arnt >
Fastmail released a javascript JMAP client library implementation, a proxy, and a webmail demo. http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/08/11/an-open-source-jmap-proxy-javascript-library-and-webmail-demo/ https://github.com/jmapio/jmap-js https://github.com/jmapio/jmap-perl
