[kronolith] "accept" vs "accept and add to my calendar"

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Jens-U. Mozdzen" <jmozdzen at nde.ag>:

> Hi Andrei,
>
> Zitat von Calendar Debug <calendar-debug at gbif.org>:
>> On 02/25/2013 03:40 PM, Jens-U. Mozdzen wrote:
>>> that invitation e-mail contains multiple parts - a text/html  
>>> version that can be used to display the event information and a  
>>> standardized calendar entry, that can be used by the MUA to create  
>>> a special display version with MUA-specific features like "add to  
>>> calendar".
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to have the same capability in the Outlook/MacMail?
>>>
>>> It's up to the MUA to select which version to display.
>>
>> Oh but that's only if we're talking a "nice" accept form. But what  
>> if I'm content with only a link/URL?
>
> I wouldn't like that too much, but that a personal opinion. In  
> general, that link would have to be generated by the entity sending  
> the invitation.
>
> If that sending entity would be Horde/kronolith, it would have to  
> detect that the destination email address is actually linked with a  
> (local) kronolith calendar, else "ugly" (broken) links would be  
> contained in the HTML part of the e-mail, that just serve to confuse  
> the receiving user.
>
> Next, how should that receiving user's context be handled? Is an  
> active login required? Would the resulting Horde page ask for a  
> login if the user's currently not logged in? What if Horde's URL is  
> different for different users? And so on...
>
> A lot of things to check in advance - I wouldn't hold my breath ;)  
> And generally, that's probably why it is usually considered the  
> receiving MUA's task and not that of the sending one...

Exactly.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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