[Re-Proposal] [Cosmo] Re: [Design] Re-haul of Collection Details / Settings / Subscribe Dialogs

[Mimi Yin]

Can you see your CalDAV calendars when you're offline in iCal? I'm  
wondering if the distinction you're describing is lost on most end- 
users. Is there alternative terminology you have in mind?

Mimi

On Nov 14, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2007 12:41 PM, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Users trying to subscribe with Chandler Desktop, Apple iCal 3.x  
>> and other
>> CalDAV clients are encouraged to visit the 'Sync' tab in  
>> 'Settings' to learn
>> how to sync their Hub account with their application of choice.
>
> "sync" is not the correct word to describe a CalDAV client's
> interaction with the server. "sync" means that the client makes a
> series of local changes and then later synchronizes its state with
> that of the server. what really happens, with Lightning, Sunbird, and
> iCal 3, is that when a change is made in the client, the change is
> sent directly over to the server. when the view is updated (scrolling
> between weeks, for instance), the client performs a query against the
> server. the client probably does some caching, but this is transient
> data that can be blown away without any data loss, as opposed to a
> syncing client's local repository, which is a "source of truth" until
> the next sync.
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