[kronolith] parse remote calenders

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Cliff Green <green@UMDNJ.EDU>:

> Have you seen the support for remote calendar files being worked on at
> the mozilla project?  It looks like subscribing to those isn't much 
> different from the way jonah allows one to subscribe to different news 
> channels, using either http:// or ftp://, and it might make building a 
> driver easier (might. might not - I'm not qualified to say), since it 
> looks like the calendar files themselves are vcal/ical format.  
> Unfortunately, when I tried importing their sample US Holidays file into 
> kronolith, (so far) none of the dates show up in my calendar.

Hmmm - any errors? Or just nothing happens?

I think, because we're a web-based app, we won't be able to get decent 
performance out of subscribing directly to remote calendars. However, we 
could probably use a caching system to do it...

> See:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

Cool, thanks for the link - I'll definitely give it a shot.

-chuck

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