Calendaring
More tab-clearing, this time it's calendar apps. Seems that Joyent is well-liked by those who use it; quite a list of all-stars they have on staff.
Google just announced Google Calendar, but they don't officially support Safari yet, which is a (not unexpected) bummer. Come on, Google, take some of that GM-surpassing market capital and hire some frickin' cross-platform Web people already. And buy a few Macs to go along with the Windows boxes. It's 2006, for chrissakes.
Some comments on Google Calendar:
- doesn't work in Safari, URL for subscribing to an iCal calendar uses high-bit ASCII (!) in the URL
- Safari URL doesn't work in iCal, which defeats the purpose of using iCal format, doesn't it?
- I can't see a way to set when a day begins - I don't think it's necessary to show me 12am- when my workday doesn't start until 9AM at best
- okay, it's obviously just broken in Safari; works nice in Firefox, even with iCal
- invites seem to work; seriously, though - can't you come up with a shorter URL?
- weird that the invite URL includes TZ info; shouldn't that be in the event instead? (try it - leave the TZ parameter off the URL, then put it back)
- ICS file attachment in the invite works well with Mail.app
- Um, so far I've gotten
fourseventeentwenty-eight copies of the reminder message for an event, all with the same Message-Id (sigh)
More comments later as I play around with it some more.
UPDATE: The zillion copies of each email message problem seems to be because Google mail completely fails to respect my GreetPause timeout. Gmail is teh suck.