[uf-dev] Re: [uf-discuss] Plazes, Part 2

[brian suda]

Besides Apple's Address book, do any others implement some of these
additional fields, and if they do can you put them and their X-PARAM on
the wiki[1].

-brian

[1] - http://microformats.org/wiki/vcard-implementations

Ryan King wrote:
> ...moving to mf-dev....
>
> On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Brian Suda wrote:
>> --- at the moment no. The problem is that each of these x-parameters
>> are vendor specific and are not part of the RFC. Secondly, there is no
>> way to be 100% sure that "x-im" is in reference to an IM address or
>> just a CSS class name that happens to be called "x-im".
>
>
> I was just thinking...
>
> I believe that URLs are the right way to do IM screen names in hCard.
> However, I don't think there'd be any harm in consuming agents and
> proxies to convert these URI schemes to the experimental properties. I
> don't propose that I'd be required of consumers, but it might be
> something nice for consumers to do for their users.
>
> so,
>
> <a class="url" href="aim:kingryan331">my aim</a>
>
> could become
>
> ...
> URL:aim:kingryan331
> X-AIM:kingryan331
> ...
>
> Am I missing something? Would these heuristics be problematic?
>
> -ryan
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