Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoperability
Alessandro Rossini <me@alessandrorossini.org> Tue, 20 November 2012 16:42 UTC
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoperability
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On 19 Nov 2012, at 17:51, Robert Smith <royersoftwareandservices@gmail.com> wrote: > Because when there is no standard way to put vendor extension in the objects, vendors put them in anyway and > break other vendors. Yes, vendors may introduce extensions anyway, no matter if there is a standard way to do it or not. However, the standard way to introduce extensions to vCard does not really facilitate the correct implementation of a vCard parser, since the parser has to ignore unknown properties anyway, no matter if their names start with "X-" or not. Moreover, the standard way to introduce extensions to vCard may encourage vendors even more to ignore the interoperability issue rather than to cooperate with the IETF to improve the specification. Cheers, -- Alessandro Rossini http://alessandrorossini.org http://twitter.com/alerossini
- [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoperabil… Alessandro Rossini
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Doug Royer
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Barry Leiba
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Simon Perreault
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Alessandro Rossini
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- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Alessandro Rossini
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Robert Smith
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Alessandro Rossini
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Doug Royer
- Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard format and lack of interoper… Alessandro Rossini
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