It seems that everyone is trying to create the holy grail of
calendar apps, and now Mozilla has upped the stakes with the release of Lighting
0.1. Aimed to be an extension for Firefox, rather than a standalone app like Sunbird,
Lighting will eventually integrate with Thunderbird to create an Outlook-like
application. From the horses month:
Some of our future goals are (none of this is implemented
right now):
- Better Thunderbird
integration
- email<->task
linkage
- Integration
with the Thunderbird address book
- iMIP
support (meeting invitations)
- Improved CalDAV
support
- Cached calendar
support for offline calendar use
- Device
synchronization
Despite minimum integration, the initial feel and potential
is promising and could prove to be a versatile challenger to Google’s up and coming CL2, and the popular
30boxes.
Download and test it out here.
21 Mar 2006
