- From: Anssi Kostiainen <anssi.kostiainen@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:40:37 +0200
- To: ext Rich Tibbett <rich.tibbett@gmail.com>, "Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston)" <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
- CC: ext DANIEL JESUS COLOMA BAIGES <dcoloma@tid.es>, "public-device-apis@w3.org WG" <public-device-apis@w3.org>
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
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