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<div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Jul 14, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Josh Owens wrote:
<br>> On 7/14/05, Carl Beeth <
<a href="mailto:carl.beeth@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">carl.beeth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>> My question would be, will there ever be much of an advantage to
<br>>>> the user<br>>>> to utilize a scraping tool over .ics files?
<br>>> The fact that the event is embedded in the HTML page allows the<br>>> user-agent to do cool stuff with the data.<br>><br>> What is this cool stuff you speak of?<br><br>Just imagine that someone wrote a browser which recognized microformats.
<br><br>-ryan</blockquote></span><div><br>
I am trying to imagine that... but what does the browser *DO* with the
microformat once it finds it? Hands it over to the user's
calendar app? Adds a button next to it, ala greasemonkey? I
am trying to get a firm understanding of the user-space tools for
microformats.<br>
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Thanks for your patience with me :)<br>
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--Josh<br>
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