[uf-discuss] hCard vs. vcf

[Chris Messina]

There are also efforts to make it possible to browser hcard-based
Address Books on Bonjour networks (see Bonsoir --
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/28/bonsoir/). If you want any
browsability, as was said, it makes it so much easier to be able to
style hcards on a network than to convert vcf to hcard to style...
Write once, style frequently... or something! ;)

Without knowing more about your app, it's hard to say otherwise.

Chris

On 8/30/06, brian suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Once you have the page marked-up you can easily convert it to ANY
> format, not just vCards. You can also submit the page to sources like
> kicthen.technorati.com and aggregate the data. It can more-easily be
> "mashed-up" with other data.
>
> -brian
>
> Jeremy Flint wrote:
> > Well, we ended up not using a standard address output on the actual
> > page. I had moved it all to a seperate page and just passed that to
> > technorati.
> >
> > Then got the "why not just use this vcf file" line.
> >
> > - jeremy
> >
> > On 8/30/06, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 30, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Jeremy Flint wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am looking for some ammunition on making the case for using hCard
> >> > over a standard .vcf file exported from Outlook for a static contact
> >> > listing that will likely not change anytime in the future.
> >>
> >>
> >> You're gonna do an HTML version of the information anyway, right?
> >>
> >> Do it with hCard, then say "look we get vcard for free (http://
> >> feeds.technorati.com/contacts/<your url>)!!!!"
> >>
> >> -ryan
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