Re: Contacts API updates

On 17.1.2011, at 18.52, Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston) wrote:

> Your proposal of referencing vCard 2.0 and adding a note re vCard 4 seems sensible.

You must mean vCard 3.0, right? AFAIK there's no 2.0?

> On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Anssi Kostiainen wrote:
> 
>> Re backward compatibility, the section "10.1. MIME Type Registration" [1] says:
>> 
>> [[
>> 
>>  Interoperability considerations:  The text/vcard media type is
>>     intended to identify vCard data of any version.  There are older
>>     specifications of vCard [RFC2426][oldreference_VCARD] still in
>>     common use.  While these formats are similar, they are not
>>     strictly compatible.  In general, it is necessary to inspect the
>>     value of the VERSION property (see Section 6.7.9) for identifying
>>     the standard to which a given vCard object conforms.
>> 
>>     In addition, the following media types are known to have been used
>>     to refer to vCard data.  They should be considered deprecated in
>>     favor of text/vcard.
>> 
>>     *  text/directory
>> 
>>     *  text/directory; profile=vcard
>> 
>>     *  text/x-vcard
>> 
>> ]]
>> 
>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev

We may also want add a note re the new catch-all MIME type "text/vcard".

-Anssi

Received on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 08:41:27 UTC