Comments on: Zimbra iSync beta released

By: Zimbra iSync beta released » Chip.Cuccio.US

Zimbra iSync beta released » Chip.Cuccio.US — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:04:56 +0000

[...] This will allow Mac users to sync their calendar and contact data with Zimbra’s web-based interface. It seems to offer a solution for those who fear too great a gulf in Web 2.0 services between server-side data-storage and users’ computers. Source: “Zimbra iSync beta released” — Hawk Wings [...]

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:54:49 +0000

Lots of it looks CSS enabled — in theory, any CSS user experienced enough can style it as needed — but some of those images are in the html, so that would be a whole new angle (and I’m sure they didn’t use alpha transparent png’s because Internet Explorer doesn’t support that, so each probably has a sucky background — you’d have to change those too).

It’s template-able, but not like Wodpress or roundcube — whose engine uses very customizable html and css, so we can control it much more closely. Especially the HTML, there’s no reason for some of their mess.

Regardless, part of it is open source, so I could take a week to destroy it and re-write it… but why, when it’s such a load on my computer, I’ll stick with my roundcube and php calendar — but it is nice it’s tied together… just not touching my server with that code:) I refuse!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:41:40 +0000

hehehe ;-)

Yes, it’s a bit like that, isn’t it? I had to switch to Firefox to try the demo.

I’m obviously not as visually astute as you are. It ddin’t seem too horrible on the eyes to me.

I wonder to what extent it is skinnable? I know you can customise the logo and so forth in the Network Edition, but about the rest of the CSS?

By: Brady J. Frey

Brady J. Frey — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:32:07 +0000

I am in a love hate relationship with Zimbra — it has much power, but it is highly unattractive — as a designer, I’m appalled by some of it’s UI decisions. Not to mention it’s lack of quality Safari output (go ahead and test the demo); though that’s partially safari’s lack of javascript in some areas, there are other routes they could have taken.

Now, I’ll avoid the fact that it loads as long as other applications to get going (again, the javascript part), but the html and CSS were NOT coded by professional talent. I see bugs in that code I wouldn’t have made four years ago — maybe we have some programmers that think html/css is a joke, but I tend to think if they can’t do the simple stuff, why should i trust the advanced stuff on my server?

I like the power, but looking under the hood, it’s not going on my xserve… and for the love of god, brushed metal with gray canvas?! NOoooo….