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Published September 1st, 2005 by Jim O'Halloran

Hula Email and Calendar

Calendaring is one of those applications that just never felt right to me as a web app. I’ve always used desktop calendars (Outlook and Evolution), and the web apps just felt a little klunky somehow. With all the nice work with JavaScript, DHTML and Ajax going on recently I thought it’d be really cool if someone was able to build a decent, interactive web based calendar that worked a lot like a desktop app.

Then someone pointed me to this demo of Hula. Hula is an open source calendaring and email server project coming out of Novell/Ximian. The demo looked cool, and based on other DHTML stuf I’d seen previously looked pretty plausable, but even so I had to wonder how much of this was possible in HTML. Then I found the developer’s blog and instructions for getting the source from svn. Its only a prototype, with no storage support at this stage. However, after playing with it I can definately say that the demo is 100% for real. This thing does with HTML exactly what you see in the demo. Awesome. Can’t wait to see a real calendar app make use of this prototype interface.

See hula-project.org for more information about Hula.

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