Talk:Google Calendar/Archive 1

Slashdotted
While this was available this morning, it looks like it's been taken back down. Beowulph 11:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Up again, and edits are pouring in. See the Slashdot story. —Michiel Sikma, 13:34, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I checked today - it seems that the Slashdot site no longer links to this page. Could someone verfiy this? –-  kungming·2 | (Talk ·Contact) 01:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Keyboard shortcuts
Please stop adding in the keyboard shortcuts. Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. —Michiel Sikma, 16:50, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Instruction might go to the Wikibooks project at http://en.wikibooks.org/ --Manop - TH 05:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit links misaligned
The edit links for the last 2 sections each appear on the External links line, can someone fix that please? --Lethargy 11:27, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

SMS
Hey guys which can receive SMS. Take a look on Settings at Google Calendar to check. (I'm too lazy to add it to the article) --ReCover 10:13, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Opera 9.02 runs it

Search Public Events
I have added information regarding the 'Search Public Events' feature that Google Calendar offers,with a screenshot. Also added information about Calendars integration with other Google services.

This is my first page edit so any probs please let me know, hope it's okay! --Hempsworth 21:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Browser Compatibility
The section on browser compatibility needs some work. First of all, supported browsers and compatible browsers are two different concepts. A supported browser is one that Google has tested and is expected to fix problems with, should they appear. A compatible browser is one that works with the product, but if a problem arose in the future, there's no commitment from Google to fix it. Browsers such as SeaMonkey work perfectly, and given the underlying Mozilla engine, it's doubtful that compatibility problems would arise. On the other hand, while Firefox 1.0+ versions are most likely compatible, as stated in the article, Google supports only 1.0.7 or later. In other words, Firefox 1.0 and SeaMonkey 1.1.4 are both unsupported, but are both presumed to be compatible. But a problem that affected functionality with a future Firefox release would make it incompatible, but officially supported.

The section could say which browsers are officially supported, or which browsers are known to work. Vague statements about "other browsers" with no attributed source do not belong in the article.

--Hagrinas 15:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Lack of week numbers
Perhaps it should be added. There are several workarounds possible. --ReCover 21:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Gmail integration
Where did the info that Gmail integration w/ e-mail info is only partial come from? This is what it seems to me, but I can't find this sourced anywhere. The text I'm referring to is this: "# Gmail, Google's webmail service. When an e-mail that contains trigger words (such as "meeting", or dates and times) arrives, an "add to calendar" button is automatically displayed alongside it. This feature is not yet available to all Gmail users." caz | speak 01:01, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty certain that that feature rolled out to users incrementally, but since that was ages ago everyone should have it by now. --ReCover 12:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Really? There's no "add to calendar" button for me even when there are clearly triggers like dates and locations in the e-mail. Are you sure it's fully rolled out? Do you see it in yours? I don't mean to turn this into a discussion forum, I just want to make sure. caz | speak 20:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Maintenance section relevant
Is it really relevant to the article that some users on google groups are annoyed that maybe google calendar has not been developed as much as other google products? ThumbFinger (talk) 01:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

In light of recent improvements to Google Calendar, including reminders for multiple calendars and the ability to sync with Outlook, I have decided to remove the maintenance section comment mentioning that people are annoyed with gCal. The two forums mentioned are now well outdated and are simply case examples as opposed to formal studies/quality references. --Kevin Dufendach (talk) 20:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Previous "Maintenance" section quoted below:

Maintenance
Some users on Google Groups believe that Google Calendar is poorly maintained in comparison to other Google applications.

--Kevin Dufendach (talk) 20:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Google Sync

 * Currently, Google Calendar can be synchronized with mobile devices (e.g. BlackBerry, Palm, Pocket PC) or with PC applications (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal) via third party software. Event reminders can be sent via email, as well as SMS to mobile phones in over 80 countries and regions. (Prepaid services don't support short codes.)

Google Sync allows users to synchronize their mobile devices with Google Calendar. This is NOT third party software. Jamesedmo (talk) 14:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Getting a Google Calendar into a WIKI

 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleCalendar