Posted by: Nathan Willis
on September 19, 2008 01:47 PM
I'm not sure I agree -- let me explain why. As I mentioned in the comments at the end, I used to worry about calendar syncing, but Google Calendar now provides standard iCalendar feed, which you can subscribe to with Sunbird, Lightning, Apple iCal, etc etc. Using such a cross-platform standard is better than layering synchronization on top of two incompatible, isolated calendars. I'm not sure where Outlook's iCalendar support stands, but I think it exists ... if anything it's phones that are tricky. But Google is doing the right thing by using a standard; if the holdouts to the iCalendar standard are mobile devices, then the mobile devices are the ones that need to change.
Now, obviously, there is a standard for contact data too -- vCard (and hCard) -- but since that is a data format and not an exchange format like iCalendar, it is not a magic bullet for syncing.
Anyway, to get back to your original comment, there is a Gmail contacts sync project for Funambol; you can check it out at the community projects site. It's still under development, though, so it's possible calendar syncing is part of the plan.
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Re: On the road with Funambol 7
Posted by: Nathan Willis on September 19, 2008 01:47 PMNow, obviously, there is a standard for contact data too -- vCard (and hCard) -- but since that is a data format and not an exchange format like iCalendar, it is not a magic bullet for syncing.
Anyway, to get back to your original comment, there is a Gmail contacts sync project for Funambol; you can check it out at the community projects site. It's still under development, though, so it's possible calendar syncing is part of the plan.
Nate
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