I’ve just released the first beta version of 0.3.0. I feel it is ready to be in a beta as there are no known bugs other than some quirks with postal addresses in Google’s API. For now postal address synchronization is disabled by default, but you can enable it in Read more…
Brief version history for gContactSync 0.2 and a basic description of 0.3 (in development)
About Since I finally got around to learning PHP, I decided to create a quick and simple online tool for viewing your Google Contacts. It naturally supports the extra attributes that gContactSync uses (except allow remote content and preferred mail format since those aren’t too important). My intention was just to Read more…
About gContactSync 0.2 takes advantage of Google’s updated and improved API for obtaining and modifying contacts. Duplicates are allowed which, combined with a rewrite of the synchronization code, provides a significantly faster synchronization process. The longest delay now seems to be receiving the contacts from Google. There may be some Read more…
I have slightly improved support for Groups. Instead of just showing the groups, you can now either remove a contact from groups that it is in (by deleting the groups in the Edit Card Dialog) and add a contact to existing groups by adding a comma, space, and the name Read more…
I wanted to test some Unicode characters to see if they would sync properly. So, I made up an e-mail address: üḯǟôÕ@host.com. The e-mail address synced without any error messages, but when I tried to edit the contact in Gmail I was given the following error: “Please enter a valid Read more…
L10n (Localization) Support I finished adding support for localization to the extension. It previously used l10n for the XUL files, but I just finished localizing strings in the scripts. If you or somebody you know would like to help translate this extension please let me know. Contact Conversion Rewrite I Read more…
Name of the extension I haven’t figured out a name for the extension yet. I initially named it gcontacts, but that name already exists for several programs. gcontactsync is a potential name. Any suggestions are welcome. SAXParseException While syncing some newly-created cards, I encountered the following error: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity Read more…
I have been busy recently, but I did manage to remove all the custom helper methods from the script that works with Google Contacts and just use one generic method instead. I also sped up the sync process by removing the need for one of the for loops I had Read more…
Well, I finally finished adding offline support, so it will should work well offline. It just sets text in the status bar to let the user know the sync cannot be completed while offline. Once the user is back online it works like normal. Any changes made while offline are Read more…