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Mozilla's Sunbird Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the right-on-schedule dept.

comforteagle writes "Mozilla Sunbird is the latest stand-alone application from the Mozilla foundation that follows in the footsteps of now revered browser Firefox and email client Thunderbird. OSDir reviews their first public release, version 0.2. Screenshots included."

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  1. Correction -- Version 0.2 by sessamoid · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not "2.0". It's "0.2". Way before 1.0.

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  2. OH, and BTW... by ScottGant · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a calendar application

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  3. Re:Actually... by kfg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Who knows what you mean by "deep system call"

    He means calls to the system API, or even the kernel itself, to handle application level functions.

    While embedding application level code at a low level can certainly reduce the amount of duplicate code in memory and provide a certain core "integration" of products written against that code it also means that a crash or security flaw of an application can be a crash or security flaw of the system itself which can only be corrected by rewriting system level code.

    He suggests that data exchange between applications instead be accomplished by the simple expedient of applications using a common data exchange format. It's a radical concept, I know, but it just might work. Someone might want to start down this road by devising a simple binary code for the alphabet and numbers and stuff.

    KFG