Any way to edit published ical calendars from a browser on a PC?

I have the same issue I want to be able to not just view my published calendar but edit it using .mac

By their very nature, published iCal calendars are read-only objects and cannot be edited. Calendar sharing is not implemented in Mac OS X 10.4.x, but is in Mac OS X 10.5 and—with iCal Server—in Mac OS X 10.5 Server.

An open-source version of iCal Server, termed the Darwin Calendar Server, is also available at here.

I'm in total agreement. I'm here at my PC at work, wishing I could add things to my iCal calendar that I view via Safari browser for my PC. My wife is sitting at home adding family events all day long. I need to be able to add my events as well, but I'm stuck here at work on a PC. You lost me with the Server stuff. How does this Server work with my current iCal software. I'm running 10.4.9 I think. Thanks,

I honestly do not know, as I didn't work with iCal Server in the the pre-release beta stage. I am hoping that iCal Server, like the open source Darwin Calendar Server, will work with iCal 2 and virtually any release of Mac OS X 10.4.s, but until it ships and explicit documentation is available for it, I won't know. Both Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.5 Server ship in eight days, so it won't be long before we know.

I haven't created a multiuser test environment for the version of iCal which ships with Mac OS X 10.5, so I do not know if 'sharing' in any form is implemented with the client version of iCal at all. I suspect that either iCal Server or the Darwin Calendar Server will be required to share information. For companies, this is a simple, reasonably affordable no-brainer. For individuals, Mac OS X 10.5 Server 10 Client—half the cost of the Unlimited Client package—is still a significant investment, particularly when you consider the cost of the additional hardware (short of an Xserve, with which OS X 10.5 Server is bundled) to host it.

I expect that you will see subscription based CalDAV-compatible commercial servers pop up soon, which can host your calendaring data and will require only the use of the client version of iCal or a CalDAV compliant Windows alternative such as Mozilla's SunBird cross-platform calendaring application. You may see Google, Yahoo and Zimbra incorporating CalDAV technology into their offerings, as well as Plaxo.

There really isn't a valid reason why .Mac shouldn't allow iCal event editing, additions, and deletions when I am logged into my account. I've suggested this feature twice over the past few years, and it's still yet to be implemented. Perhaps if more users suggestion it they would take the suggestions more seriously. You can provide feedback at www.apple.com/feedback

I also have suggested that the calendar button on the main .Mac page for users who are logged in should link to their iCal calendars instead of a generic description of iCal's functionality as if I were a non-subscriber.

I thought I would switch to iCal this year and so far its been very disappointing. Having to add all day events requires too much editing the obvious inability to add dates from my work PC is prohibitive. I think I'm going to one of those free PC calendar programs. I don't want to buy the iserver program after already buying Leopard, Applecare, Procare, and now "One on one" - enough spending already.