Re: draft-freed-sieve-in-xml status?

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Ned Freed <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >> the standard talks a lot about graphical user interfaces. i'd be
> >> interested to learn how it's been implemented.
> >
> > We're using an variant of what's in the draft (an earlier version) in our web
> > client. The details are rather complex, but basically what happens is that the
> > client uses the alternate representation in order to avoid having to parse and
> > otherwise deal with Sieve syntax.

> yes - sieve parsing is probably too difficult for web applications

Well, I'm not sure I'd go that far, although the whole Javascript environment
is such a nightware you may well be right.

But regardless, the point is why force people to implement another parser in a
hugely overconstained environment when they don't need to?

				Ned