Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 393
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."
Strange math.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:no Palm support (Score:5, Interesting)
I actually use yahoo's sync to backup by outlook contacts, calender, and to-do list. It's cheesy as hell, but it certainly does the job.
How can I publish my events on a remote server?
You can publish events from the calendar to an FTP server or a webDAV enabled webserver. You can also use the calendar to subscribe to these events as well.
If I can figure out what the heck a webDAV enabled webserver is, maybe I can drop yahoo...
Davak
Re:Sunbird? Firefox? Firebird? (Score:3, Interesting)
Apparently so, considering they are only two programs.
(OT note: anyone know if it's possible to disable the ctrl+w shortcut in Mozilla? I use the Dvorak keyboard, on which w is right next to v, so I fairly regularily close the window instead of pasting... it's quite annoying)
Re:And file compatible with Apples iCal too .. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Some of the new Mozilla 1.8a3 features (Score:2, Interesting)
Okay. Since when have Mozilla folks started to work around IE brokenness, and why?
I know many folks whine that there should be more this kind of features, but it sounds like a slippery slope, not to mention encourages writing MORE bad DHTML instead of fixing the existing.
Open Contacts format (Score:4, Interesting)
On topic, good job to the Sunbird team... While I have to live in a multi-OS world, it's nice to have both windows and linux versions of these apps, makes syncing a realistic thing.
Re:It's got my vote (Score:3, Interesting)
One message per file just seems like a huge step backwards. FidoNet had that, with the MSG format. It was unscalable, unworkable, and had big performance problems, which is why pretty much everyone migrated to another format, which kept all the messages in a single file. (There were other files which did indexing and so forth.)
For the maildir/mh stuff to be fast, you need a header cache of some kind. Once you have the cache, you might as well just use the mbox approach, which everything understands, is a lot easier on hard disks and filesystems, and is much easier to back up.
Obviously this is all just my opinion. But I'm right.
Don't forget Chandler (Score:5, Interesting)
sPh
Re:Possibly a very important... (Score:2, Interesting)
I had to set up a system for a new secretary and gave her Sunbird instead of Outlook. She was eager to give it a shot, but after a few days she told me it just didn't have the features and flexability of Outlook, which it doesn't. Maybe soon.
I would use it if it could sync with my Tungsten.
Re:gecko (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:gecko (Score:3, Interesting)
Exchange Connector would be nice (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Still lacks most important feature: useful alar (Score:2, Interesting)
Enquireing minds....... (Score:3, Interesting)
Navigator --------- CTRL-1
Mail & Newsgroups - CTRL-2
Composer ---------- CTRL-4
Addres Book  -- CTRL-5
Calander ---------- CTRL-8
divider
IRC Chat ---------- CTRL-6
Question is: what're slots 3 and 7 set aside for? What's "out there" still?
Why don't they sign these things? (Score:4, Interesting)
And people wonder why Open Source isn't taken seriously. I've touched on this topic before [slashdot.org], and while this isn't a security update [slashdot.org], it would really show that the Mozilla Team were showing a little professionalism...
Mark "Karma to Burn" Hood
Re:Don't forget Chandler (Score:3, Interesting)
take a look but at the moment is it worth it? problems in their development process [osafoundation.org] and technology [osafoundation.org] have appeared since I last looked at it post version 0.1. Will the Firebird+Sunbird combo make it irrelevant?
Common runtime enviroment (Score:2, Interesting)
Sunbird, Firefox and Thunderbird run using a lot of code in common. Because of that they were originaly available in the Mozilla Application Suite.
Wouldn't it be easier, and more efective to release a common runtime environment, and then be able to release much smaller apps to run in it?
Cheers,
Adolfo