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Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2

Posted by simoniker on from the flutter-by dept.

Gentu writes "Along with the new Mozilla-Japan initiative and the release of Mozilla 1.8a3 today, the Mozilla team released the first 'official' beta release of Mozilla Sunbird, version 0.2, a stand-alone calendaring application (similar to Apple's iCal). There are two flavors of this project, one that works as a ~700 KB plugin to Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla (titled Mozilla Calendar) and the ~8 MB stand-alone calendaring application, Mozilla Sunbird (rate the apps over at GnomeFiles.org). These builds are the first to feature a new default theme, a new logo and the customizable toolbar functionality. Note that Sunbird is still an experimental technology preview that contain bugs, but it is pretty stable."

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  1. Some of the new Mozilla 1.8a3 features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the Readme:
    • At-rule for matching on site/document URL. Among other things, this makes site-specific user style rules possible (Great for changing it.slashdot.org's color scheme!)
    • Undetected document.all support has been added to Mozilla (Good for some dumb IE-only sites)
    • Support for translucent windows on Windows and GTK2 (Oohh!)
    • Preliminary support for CSS columns has been checked in (Too bad IE won't support this for years, if ever)
    • The new npruntime plugin scriptability API (Good, good)
    • Users can now disable CSS via Use Style > None or a global preference (Well, they can't all be exciting)
    1. Re:Some of the new Mozilla 1.8a3 features by medeii · · Score: 5, Informative

      Read the damn bug yourself. (Note: copy and paste the link, Bugzilla rejects visits from Slashdot.) It is not designed to encourage bad writing: support for document.all will ONLY activate if the web developer really was stupid and did not use any sort of test to detect it.

      Additional discussion can be seen from the Mozillazine article published weeks ago.

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      got standards? --- http://www.w3.org/
  2. no Palm support by js7a · · Score: 5, Informative
    The calendar does not yet synch with your Palm Pilot.
    -- Sunbird FAQ
    No synching with outlook clients (e.g. Pocket PCs), either, just Outlook .ics format export-import.
    1. Re:no Palm support by ptbarnett · · Score: 4, Informative
      If I can figure out what the heck a webDAV enabled webserver is, maybe I can drop yahoo...

      http://www.webdav.org/

    2. Re:no Palm support by deputydink · · Score: 5, Informative
      apache with mod_webdav is what you want. It works out of the box on Mac actually, since Apple's iCal is built on webDav, which means they'd be compatible (sort of)

      I think it works out of the box on Fedora as well.


      Pretty much any modern web server can do webdav, or has a module that can do it.

    3. Re:no Palm support by irix · · Score: 4, Informative

      Sync support is planned eventually, but some of us are starting to look at it now.

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      Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
  3. As usual... by almostmanda · · Score: 5, Informative

    The logos are adorable.

  4. And file compatible with Apples iCal too .. by Macka · · Score: 5, Informative

    From their web site:

    iCal and the Mozilla Calendar use the same file format, so events from one should show up without problem in the other. You can also subscribe to the list of events on Apple's website if you like.

    This is great news, and should help to promote both applications.

  5. Sunbird has no support for proxies - no worries! by hallucination · · Score: 5, Informative

    If, like me, you need to use a proxy server in Sunbird, but found that it doesn't allow you to set one up, you have two choices:

    Use the thunderbird/firefox calendar plugin instead

    OR

    Copy the network.proxy parts of your thunderbird/firefox prefs.js file into your sunbird prefs.js file.

  6. Re:Possibly a very important project for Open Sour by Senjutsu · · Score: 5, Informative

    (though there could be something already out there... I just don't know about it ;) ).

    Ximian Evolution is the Managerial, Outlook-esque product for Linux that you seem to be missing.

  7. Re:Strange math.... by jsebrech · · Score: 4, Informative

    The firefox installer skims off a few megs by using 7zip compression (which is why the linux and mac builds are so much bigger, no 7zip). I would imagine the sunbird installer exe isn't built with 7zip support yet.

  8. Etymology of Mozilla by sbszine · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well what can you expect when the entire project is apparently named after a giant, fire breathing lizard?

    Intarweb folk history has it that the word Mozilla is a contraction of Mosaic-Killer (with a nod to Godzilla, of course).

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    Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling

  9. Re:Open Contacts format by Ramsed · · Score: 5, Informative

    vCard ?

  10. Re:Open Contacts format by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, Mozilla, KAddressBook, and OpenLDAP support LDIF. That seems like a pretty feature-complete standard for sharing directory information.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  11. Re:Still lacks most important feature: useful alar by helix400 · · Score: 4, Informative

    A minimize to tray extension is in the works that would help this problem out to a degree.

    Minimize To Tray Extension

    The extension works pretty well for Firefox and Thunderbird, and if/when Sunbird allows extensions, it will be extended to work with that too. This of course means Sunbird/Calendar would always be running, able to send out alarms, but not taking up lots of room on the taskbar. At the moment, the minimize to tray extension is only for Windows, and it's not a perfect fix, but it may help out some people who just want any solution for this issue.