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Thursday December 23, 2004 | Playing with Sunbird | Computers |
CNET reports that Mozilla has released Sunbird 0.2, a.k.a. project Lightning. Sunbird is a calendar program that is meant to work with
Thunderbird and
Firefox
and is targeted at the Microsoft Outlook community.
I downloaded this release candidate and tested it on Windows XP. It's certainly a nice program, but it's still lacking some of the features that are required to really be a primary calendar program. That's not to say that those features aren't planned, but they're not there yet (it is only release 0.2 after all).
The main feature that is missing for me is Palm Pilot support. Yup, it's planned, but it's not there in this release. Unlike email and web access, calendar support isn't about creating a useful client that uses a common API to access remote data. A truely useful calendar program is about being able to synchronize with a varied set of other calendar apps and being able to grok all of the various formats. There aren't just one or two calendar standards like there are in the email and web world, there are dozens. Hopefully Sunbird will start a calendar protocol war and the number of competing protocols will lessen and people gravitate to the stronger and more common ones.
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December 23, 2004 10:48 AM PST
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