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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. sync and invite messages DO THIS by johnjones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    oh what a world we live in

    apple wrote a sync engine named isync that works...
    it is a syncML server and has proved thats what you need
    (palm has a known way of sync and very much just for palmOS so target phones then palm not the other way round)

    for standards please please
    The standards that need to be addressed are RFC 2445 (iCalendar), RFC 2446 (iTIP), and RFC 2447 (iMIP)

    read and make sure you can work with Evolution and lotus notes

    regards

    John Jones

  2. Convert by Seumas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I still don't use calendar programs. We use them at work, as we develop one of the better known enterprise grade calendar servers, but I still don't make use of it. I don't make use of any kind of calendaring system whatsoever. I just remember things like a normal person.

    However, I would gladly begin using one if there was a broader standard that was accepted and implemented that didn't lock me into one solution forever, could easily be synched or access from anywhere (no central server - maybe even let me just FTP it somewhere like the Firefox extension I use that automatically synchronizes my bookmarks anywhere I want using my FTP server).

    This is a good step in that direction and as soon as something robust comes along (Sunbird) to fit in with the Firefox and Thunderbird family, I'll be all over it.

    I used Sunbird awhile back. It's decent. Not solid enough for me to adopt it and start calendaring - but not bad, either.