Bring Your Own Client

Re:Bring Your Own Client by vbsteven on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:13AM (#26355957)

And this works both ways. Like the Postgres standard API you mention: Not only does it allow you to bring your own client, you can swap the underlying implementation and still use all the clients that speak the protocol.

Like the author I would really like to see some open protocols (and adoption) for todo's and calendars. I mention adoption because for calendars there are some standards but popular software like Google Calendar and Exchange do not implement them properly or fully.

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Re:Bring Your Own Client by bombcar on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:29AM (#26356085)

Calendaring is a huge embarrassment and a mess, and it is super annoying if you have to deal with anyone “outside” your group. Emailed ical files seems to be the norm but only work over email. :(

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Re:Bring Your Own Client by SahAssar on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:08AM (#26357620)

Calendaring is surprisingly complex. Especially when it comes to stuff like rules for repeating events and timezones. I had to do work on this at a previous job and it was pretty hard even with all the libraries and tools out there.

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Re:Bring Your Own Client by bombcar on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:29AM (#26358683)

It's insanely complex - one of those problems that is easy to state and nearly impossible to solve (which means there's opportunity here).

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Re:Bring Your Own Client by karatinversion on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:44PM (#26359606)

Or in a lot of places, that’s Microsoft outlook’s moat

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