Its likely most people know this, just mentioning in case, but firefox os calendar supports sync (3rd party), if I remember right it supports exchange and possibly activesync
In terms of 'tasks', I think at that point we should probably be looking towards sync as a webAPI as opposed to a service (ie an indexedDB with sync that can be controlled at the app level) its something I have had in the back of my mind while developing Pouch, https://plus.google.com/+AddyOsmani/posts/9457wajmWvB has some interesting points of information about some api's exposed by chrome On 5 September 2013 04:26, Mark Finkle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ------------------------------ > > On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Christophe Brocas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello > > > > Sync has always been Firefox oriented and so it put the focus on syncing > > booksmarks/tabs/passwords informations. > > > > But with the move to Mobile with FirefoxOS, I think users will first > want to > > sync their contacts and calendar between their mobile/PC/tablet. Because > it is > > what first matter on a phone. > > > > We should probably provide our own contact sync service eventually, but in > the spirit of "not building another silo", what about syncing to other > contact service providers (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc)? > > Maybe we should support third-party contact sync before we build our own. > When we launch support for contact sync, exactly 0 zero users will have > pre-existing contacts in the Firefox OS contact syncing service, which > makes the value prop less compelling. However, I suspect at least some > users will have pre-existing contacts at these other providers, so > supporting contact sync with them is a compelling value prop. > > > I can't help feeling a bit sad about this plan though. We use FirefoxOS to > give people a great entry platform to the mobile internet, then we > introduce them to Google or Facebook and proceed to get them locked into > those vendors. > > I can see the rationale of the plan: If you want Sync, then you must have > more than just your phone. If you have more than just a phone, you probably > already have your data locked into a vendor. > > Unless these people, like many others, mistakenly see Sync is a way to > backup their contacts and other data. > > _______________________________________________ > Sync-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev > >
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