- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:55:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, James Graham wrote: > > > > The ideal is both, users with different needs have big problems using > > generic UA's by providing semantic mark-up, it's trivial to create new > > views on the same data - think how easy Mathew Somervilles Accessible > > Odeon scraping would've been had they based their system on iCal. > > Indeed. They could have used HTML 4's <link rel="alternate"> to point to > the iCal data from the HTML page. Sadly, the convenience of building up > HTML directly from the underlying database (not to mention the > incompetence of Odeon) meant they didn't feel the need to insert an > extra layer of abstraction between their db and the web page. Note the current (work in progress) proposal to allow iCal content to be mechanically integrated into HTML documents in a backwards-compatible manner: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#calendars http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hCalendar > Sure I would like it it everyone communicated everything freely using > standard languages correctly. Realistically, it isn't going to happen. Sad to say, but you're right. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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