[uf-discuss] Why "vevent" and not Event?

[Harald Effenberg]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andriy Drozdyuk" <drozzy at gmail.com>
To: <microformats-discuss at microformats.org>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 3:26 PM
Subject: [uf-discuss] Why "vevent" and not Event?


> Can somebody explain to me the names "vcalendar" and "vevent" were
> chosen, as opposed to just "calendar" and "event"?

"Calendar" is a calendar.
"vCalendar" is a standard  for exchanging calendar-data. The "v" came probably because it was
developed along with the vCard-standard for exchanging address-data.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar#vCalendar_1.0

Best regards
Harald
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