[uf-dev] hCard DoB -> calendar apps

[Chris Casciano]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> In message <A2C28C3D-39A7-413C-B6EA-34B99ECF53D1 at randomchaos.com>,  
> Scott
> Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> writes
>
>>>> Are there any hCard parsers, which will add a name/ DoB pair  
>>>> from an
>>>> hCard, to a calendar application, as a recurring iCalendar event?
>
>> A third alternative would be to treat it as the responsibility (and
>> authority) of the publisher, who could markup the birthday as a
>> repeating event with hCalendar.
>
> I thought the order of priority was to have the work done:
>
>    1.   By the parser
>
>    2.   By the publisher
>
>    3.   By the user
>
> Isn't that one of the "principles"? If not, I think it should be.
>
> Consider it as:
>
>    1.   ~10 hour's work by the parser author, now (sorry, Mr Kaply!)
>
>    2.   ~10,000,000 hours work by publishers, for ever
>
>    3.   ~100,000,000 hours work by users, for ever
>
> Joking aside, do any parser authors have a view?



not a parser author, but you left out my scenario:

0. By the application consuming the parsed data

and.

0. ~0 hours of work for all involved because its a feature of  
existing consumers of the parsed data.


Ultimately my feeling is that it could be a parser feature, wouldn't  
really harm anything, but from a publishers standpoint authoring  
birthdays everywhere as repeating events seems to be counter to the  
way one both thinks of a DOB as well as how a DOB would be typically  
published... though my expectation of how a DOB might be published on  
the web is quite limited [i'd almost think the opposite case of  
seeing a calendar entry and being able to extract a good vcard from  
it would happen more frequently]

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