Re: [VCARDDAV] vCard3->4 changes

[Rohit Khare <[e-mail]>]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Rohit, could you clarify what you mean by "line-by-line encoding"  
> here?

A text file format primarily delimited by [\n:;] with idiosyncratic  
boundary delimiters ("begin:VCARD"), and special cases for nesting  
(the "vcard" value type).

Or, more functionally, something developers are used to shredding with  
grep; and users are able to edit in a plain text editor. There's a lot  
more change under the hood than the version # increment might indicate.

These are not meant to be value judgments that I prefer the old  
approach!

Best,
   Rohit

PS. I really appreciated Mr. Navara's post this morning about  
experience within emClient. I can see how there's some scope-creep  
between the traditional view of "what's best for email (and, perhaps,  
unified communications)" and the newer view of "how can users best  
indicate how to reach other users (across social networks and on the  
Web)"