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Apple Implements the CalDAV Standard For MobileMe

Posted by kdawson on from the camel's-nose-under-the-enterprise-tent dept.

Vermyndax writes "Apple announced the new MobileMe Calendar beta on July 6th. The mainstream press picked up the story and plugged the gorgeous new iPad-like interface for all devices. It seems, however, that they missed the real story: MobileMe's new Calendar application is an implementation of CalDAV, the proposed calendaring standard. This may be the same implementation that exists in Snow Leopard Server and is open sourced. The hidden gem in all of this is that Apple plans to bring this CalDAV connectivity to Outlook users on MobileMe. Where might they take it next?"

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  1. Re:syncml by metamatic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeesh. SyncML? Have you ever looked at that standard? Ghastly.

    Besides, converting CalDAV to SyncML on the server side shouldn't be hard, since CalDAV is iCalendar files in a set of directories on a WebDAV server, and SyncML is iCalendar files wrapped in XML and sent to a SyncML server across whatever protocol the vendor chooses. In fact, a quick Googling suggests that there are already numerous SyncML to CalDAV gateways, including open source ones.

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  2. Re:Unpossible by leamanc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, I know because Apple never gives anything back to the open source community at all!

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  3. Re:Unpossible by mean+pun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Agreed.

  4. Re:iCal by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Informative

    In order to use the name UNIX, an operating system is required to pass a strict set of conformance tests. Therefore, Mac OS X is UNIX in far more than just a trademark sense.

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