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| valign="top" |Places will add exciting capabilities to firefox. Indexing visited pages is a consistent demand seen in the wikis. Further users spend a lot of time on re-finding information on the web. A feature like this will enhance his user-experience. Sooner or later, competiting browsers will implement this feature. An early start on this will make firefox even more competitive compared to its rival browsers.
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| valign = "top" | CRON-like repeatable event specification in Sunbird
| valign = "top" | Desktop calendar applications use repeatable event specification where a user can '''exclusively''' choose one of the following repeat patterns: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Server-side deamon CRON uses more sophisticated way of repeat pattern specification. One can mix daily patterns with weekly patterns and etc. in one event specification.
The project's aim is to implement CRON-like pattern specification in Desktop calendar application Sunbird. The idea is new and not seen in any other calendaring application due to the following reason. CRON uses on-line algorithm: checks every minute if current time/date matches any of the list of patterns. Desktop calendar however, needs daily, weekly, monthly (and sometimes yearly) view. Generating all occurrences of a pattern within a specified time bound is not an easy task. I have been doing research in this topic and came up with an idea of doing this kind of computation efficiently. I managed to implement it in a commercial system that is not a calendaring application but has similar functional requirements. I have put algorithmic design into a [http://www.genijusz.org/zalewski07calendar.pdf whitepaper] that explains all the details.
Now I would like to implement this algorithm in an open source calendaring application as a proof of concept of my algorithm.
| valign = "top" | [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dominikz Dominik Zalewski]
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