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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 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. Strange math.... by wolfemi1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm confused. If the plugin is ~700K, and the Firefox installer for Windows is ~4.6M, then how in the hell can the standalone Sunbird be ~8M, more over 3 megabytes more than the browser and plugin combined?

  4. Lot of work coming from that direction by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Funny

    That whole mozilla suite project just seems to be generating a lot of really good software... There's firegoat, thunderbird, mozilla, alotofotherthingsidontknowaboutfox, and mozilla.

    I mean wow, those are some productive developers... Kudos.

    (though I keep on worrying that they'll slip out a kernel one of these days just to complete the operating environment... kernelzilla? mozillOS? Thunderbarf?)

    Just kidding :0 Thanks for all the great work!

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    Blearf. Blearf, I say.
  5. As usual... by almostmanda · · Score: 5, Informative

    The logos are adorable.

  6. 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.

  7. Mozilla project names currently in alpha by MerryGoByeBye · · Score: 5, Funny
    • Birdfire
    • Sunfried
    • Friedbird
    • Furredbread
    • Bunfriar
    • Sunblurred
    • Slurredbird
    • Blurbird
    • Boredslurred
    • Slartibird
    • Currybird
    This will go a loooong way to convincing people to switch from silly and confusing Microsoft products! Er...
  8. Re:Mozilla Japan by tigersaw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't Mozilla just a bit to close to Godzilla for the Japanese market?

    Prepare for a name change. I'm thinking "Pikascape" or "Mozachu"

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    In Soviet Russia, all our base are belong to you!
  9. Possibly a very important project for Open Source by techiemac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sunbird could very well be one of the more important open source projects out there! At least, important for the corporate adoption of Linux. While Linux remains awesome in the server/development arena (after all, it's all I use to write code at work), it still lacks in the "Management" desktop area. Before I get lots of flames about this one, I know about openoffice.org but still, if you look at the dominiance and reliance on Outlook in the corporate environment, you will see why Linux needs a good, integrate calendar application.
    One CEO even mentioned this to me. He loves Linux from what he has been shown/played with but finds it hard to lose the integrated calendar feature of Outlook. For him, that's what is holding back the adoption of Linux. Believe it or not, he hates the quality of Outlook. The only reason he is tied to it is because it is the only viable solution with the proper features.
    The more we look at what our targeted users are using, the better off we will be. This is what Microsoft often does well. They look at who makes the decision to deploy their product, like any good company does, and tailor their product around that user.
    I simply cannot believe that we, as an open source community, have not yet duplicated the todo/email/calendar application that managers so love (with good reason too, their jobs often involve quite a few meetings/action items/communications).
    Hopefully this will fill the void of an integrated calendar/scheduling application (though there could be something already out there... I just don't know about it ;) ).

  10. 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.

  11. Another goddamn car name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ford Thunderbird
    Pontiac Firebird
    Pontiac Sunbird

    The Sunbird was an even crappier car than the Firebird. Think Cavalier+nasty plastic decorations.

  12. 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.

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

    vCard ?