Re: hCalendar
Lisa Dusseault <lisa <at> osafoundation.org>
2005-06-09 01:05:23 GMT
I don't think that's worthwhile although I may be proven wrong if email
clients and calendar applications come to accept hCalendar and *not*
iCalendar. Since iCalendar is more expressive (Tantek reduced the
scope for decent reasons) and since it's the only accepted iMIP format,
it's the only thing you have to send. Where you'll see hCalendar
client code -- at least at first -- is in little browser plug-ins or
extensions that parse a Web page and can let you know "there's an event
described in this Web page" and let you send it to your calendar
application.
One of the broken things about the iCalendar spec series, RFC2445-2447,
is that you can't send multipart/alternative in iMIP messages. The
standard is written so you can only legally send text/calendar MIME
types. Ever. No upgrade mechanism. No description of what a client
is supposed to do if it receives multipart/alternative (might be
ambiguous, after all).
Lisa
On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:
> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>> Yes, I've met Tantek too and talked to him about this scheme. I was
>> thinking someday we'd probably get around to using it when we display
>> an event or a list of events in Scooby, so that someday if somebody
>> writes an hCalendar-based tool they can scrape the data right out of
>> the page. We'd still obviously need to use iCalendar for export and
>> CalDAV support and invitations (maybe a couple other places too).
>
> seems like we could do multipart/alternative invitations with
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