{"id":684,"date":"2003-10-08T15:32:16","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T19:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=684"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ical_151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/08\/ical_151\/","title":{"rendered":"iCal 1.5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ical\">iCal<\/a> update brings some welcome improvements, but it doesn&rsquo;t go far enough.\n<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>\nIt&rsquo;s faster, but still sluggish.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nIt finally supports timed events that span multiple days, and it can now show start times in month view. It does not show end times, however.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nGone is the inspector that always opened split between my two screens and that seemed to want to float above whatever I was looking at. Replacing it is a drawer that stays out of the way, but whose width makes iCal unusable on an iBook screen. You can&rsquo;t hide the Calendars pane, to see more of the calendar, either.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nTyping dates and times has become reasonably straightforward (iCal no longer fights you), though the drawer uses non-standard text fields in the style of Address Book.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nThere&rsquo;s a new application-modal dialog box that looks like it&rsquo;s drawer-modal. If something non-standard was really necessary, Apple would have done well to borrow from Claris Organizer.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nSome, but not all, of iCal now respects the Graphite appearance.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nThere are now keyboard commands for changing the view and moving to adjacent days, weeks, and months.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nYou can now mail events and to-dos, though only using Apple Mail.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\niCal still can&rsquo;t display all the text in crowded calendars. Printing is even worse, especially if you have to-do items.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iCal update brings some welcome improvements, but it doesn&rsquo;t go far enough. It&rsquo;s faster, but still sluggish. It finally supports timed events that span multiple days, and it can now show start times in month view. It does not show end times, however. Gone is the inspector that always opened split between my two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}