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Interview with Mozilla Lightning lead Mike Shaver

Posted by timothy on from the why-is-the-sun-so-large? dept.

synopsis5 writes "The Lightning project (tight calendar integration into Mozilla Thunderbird) is one of the hottest things to come in the Mozilla world. In this interview Lightning lead developer Mike Shaver responds to questions from the Mozilla user community."

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  1. Re:Is Lightning the same thing as Sunbird? by Adelbert · · Score: 2, Informative
    I think Sunbird is the name for the seperate calendar. Lightning is the calendar integrated into Thunderbird.

    I used Sunbird for a while, then gave up upon realising it was more convenient to use a pencil and paper. However, if it was brought into the mail sending environment, that would possibly make it more useful, as people will be able to check when they are free when planning a meeting etc. I look forward to seeing how this project turns out...

  2. Re:Is Lightning the same thing as Sunbird? by synopsis5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sunbird is the standalone Calendar project from mozilla.org.

    Lightning is a calendaring extension, which will be tightly integrated into Mozilla Thunderbird.

    Both programs share most of their backend and some of their frontend code.