Re: Google Calendar Caldav support dropped?

On Fr. 15.03.2013 11:44, Patrick Cloke wrote:
> On 3/15/2013 5:19 AM, Peter Lairo wrote:
>> On Do. 14.03.2013 11:41, Virgo Pärna wrote:
>>>     For a some time it's been recommended to use CalDAV for Google
>>> Calendar. But in the light of
>>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html
>>> it seems, that Google is closing CalDAV access.
>>
>> One thing that needs mentioning is that if the Lightning developers had
>> made it easier to set up lightning with a Google CalDAV calendar, then
>> Google would have many more users and would thus have been much less
>> likely to abandon CalDAV. so I put part of the blame on the Lightning
>> developers.
>
> This is a totally ridiculous statement. Google doesn't WANT people to
> use third party applications, they want everything to stay in their
> ecosystem so they can get ad revenue: that's what's to blame.

If it is so ridiculous, then why does Google still offer IMAP access to 
their e-mail service? By your reasoning, they shouldn't. By my 
reasoning, they do because many users use/demand it, whereas (in part 
due to the difficulty in setting it up) very few users use CalDAV to 
access their calendars.

> Now, I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea, but it would be nice to
> identify some of the common calendar services people use and provide
> easy ways to make accounts; actually it'd be nice if, when creating a
> Gmail account in Thunderbird it would just prompt me "Do you always want
> to sync your contacts and calendar?". That's certainly not a simple
> thing to do, however.
>
>>>     Does that mean, that now Provider for Google Calendar should be used
>>> instead?
>>
>> I've always dreaded the idea of needing an add-on for an add-on. Plus,
>> the add-on for the add-on only uses iCal, which is like using POP3 when
>> you could be using IMAP.
>
> I don't think that's a good analogy, POP3 is technically very deficient
> to IMAP. I do not believe the same is try for using the Provider for
> Google Calendar vs. CalDAV (i.e. they support the same feature set, just
> different transfer mechanisms).

I'm not sure you are correct about CalDAV being significantly similar to 
iCal. I don't remember the relevant difference, but it could be that 
CalDAV is an open standard, and iCal "belongs" to Apple. <spit on them 
for not allowing Firefox to use their own rendering engine>
-- 
Regards,
Peter Lairo

Bugs I think are important:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467153 Google Cal Setup
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769476 Sync Reordering
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446444 Sync for Thunderbird
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391057 Write to Mac AB

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