{"id":2211,"date":"2011-09-07T13:25:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:13","slug":"creating-a-new-thunderbird-address-book-the-feature-page-and-some-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/creating-a-new-thunderbird-address-book-the-feature-page-and-some-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a new Thunderbird Address Book:  the feature page, and some literature&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my dream of redesigning \/ rebuilding the Thunderbird address book is moving forward.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Thunderbird\/Modern_Address_Book\">Here&#8217;s the draft feature page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also got the <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/messaging\/2010\/08\/04\/thunderbird-contacts\/\">Contacts add-on from Labs working (limping, rather) in Thunderbird<\/a>.\u00a0 Some very interesting ideas in that add-on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also started reading some related work.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been gazing at for the past few days:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=674720\">Bug 674720 (WebContacts or Contacts+)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/contacts-api\/\">The W3C Contacts API draft spec<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portablecontacts.net\/draft-spec.html\">The PortableContacts draft spec<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imc.org\/pdi\/vcard-21.doc\">The vCard spec<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Services\/Sync\/FxSync\">The Firefox Sync development documents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, basically, I&#8217;m exposing myself to as much current work in this problem space as possible.\u00a0 Is there anything else I should be reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my dream of redesigning \/ rebuilding the Thunderbird address book is moving forward.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the draft feature page. I also got the Contacts add-on from Labs working (limping, rather) in Thunderbird.\u00a0 Some very interesting ideas in that add-on. I&#8217;ve also started reading some related work.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been gazing at for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,861,862],"tags":[934,992,991,932,867,990,993,994],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-mozilla-2","category-thunderbird","tag-address-book","tag-portable-contacts","tag-specs","tag-sync","tag-thunderbird-2","tag-vcard","tag-webapi","tag-webcontacts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-zF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3112,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}