Perhaps I misunderstand, but is this another dialog box for subscribe
to Chandler? Or does it take you to the Collection Details and
defaults to 'Chandler' in the drop down?
I'm also not quite convinced about the auto launch from the pull down
as Bobby stated before (though maybe he just meant for Collection
Details). Especially if you are running windows/linux and the browser
displays a pop up listing all the different apps for the user to
choose from or give the user the option to save the file to their
desktop…to me, it just seems like it's broken, like it didn't do what
it's supposed to do.
With the development time to get this right and the testing, would it
be too much to say we can work on this post 0.6? And for now, just
launch the 'Collection Details' and allow the user to select for
themselves?
I personally feel if you can't have the auto launch work and make it
do all the right things (ie. put the URL in the right place so the
user can just click go) in all the applications 100% for all browsers/
OS then it's best to let the user decide what they want to do and
where to place it.
Last comment about [Copy to clipboard]. Not a standard web
convention. Not worth the time to make it work on all the browsers/
OS. If mde says it's a synch, fine, but Bobby is building the
'Collection Details' dialog and it's just not worth this amount of
detail work for 0.6.
Small note, google calendar has the subscription URLs as hyperlinks
and they're still able to run calendar as beta.
-Priscilla
On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Priss asked me to define how the Subscribe pulldown would work as
well, given the new design for the Collection details dialog.
Note: Waiting for mde to comment on the [Copy to Clipboard] feature.
Subscribe with:
| Chandler |v|
| iCal 2x
| Feed Reader
| Download calendar and tasks
What happens:
1. Subscribe with Chandler --> Dialog pops-up to display the
following -
=====
Collection name: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (non-editable)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Copy and Paste this URL to the Collection>>Subscribe... menu item
in Chandler:
URL: [xxxxxxxxxxxxx] [Copy to Clipboard] [Help]
Don't have Chandler? [Learn more] [Download]
=====
2. Subscribe with iCal 2x --> Auto-launches iCal if you're on a
Mac; otherwise
On Windows / Linux, OR if auto-launch fails on the Mac: The browser
will pop up a list of apps for the user to choose from or give the
user the option to save the file to their desktop.*
3. Subscribe with Feed reader --> Attempts to Auto-launch feed
reader; otherwise
The browser will pop up a list of apps for the user to choose from
or give the user the option to save the filer to their desktop.*
4. Download calendar and tasks --> Downloads .ics file to Desktop
*BCM: What format will the file be saved in on the desktop?
Is this clear?
Mimi
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