On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:34:48PM -0400, John Beimler spoke thusly: > on a side note, I am interested if anyone has looked at how Apple's iCal > publishing/subscribing works, will it interoperate with Exchange, and > more important for me, Evolution?
The good news - Outlook2K2 publishes to webdav just fine. So does the beta Mozilla calendar. Evo doesn't seem to publish outside Evo right now without the exchange connector from Ximian ($$). It should be easy enough for someone who knows the camel subsystem to write a connector to read/write their iCal files. The bad news in all of this, is that Outlook seems to be publishing only the freebusy parts of the iCal spec, so interaction is difficult. Nobody except O2K2 is reading or writing those bits, so at the moment, it's kind of useless. A note on freebusy from http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo : "FREEBUSY=FREE: would be better as FREE: to reduce unnecessary complication and allow extension. If that section of the spec (4.2.9) seems to be self-referential and difficult to read, that is also because it is describing an unnatural part of a clumsy syntax. You don't say "I am free or busy as follows: 12-1pm and we are talking about free here"! because RDF makes these things first class objects and allow you to group FREE and BUSY and REALLYBUSY as subclases of FREEBUSYTYPE life is easier." On the whole, though, it's all do-able with webdav and the various programs - it's just a matter of getting all the pieces finished and talking to each other. Everyone is using the same spec, just not the entire spec, it seems. -- ---------------------------------- -- Kevin Sonney -- -- ICQ: 4855069 AIM: ksonney -- ---------------------------------- 320C 0336 3BC4 13EC 4AEC 6AF2 525F CED7 7BB6 12C9 Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. -- Tallulah Bankhead
msg04119/pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
