Re: MIME as a vCalendar element separator - bad move...

[drummond@xxxxxxxxxx (Rik Drummond)]

This is the same issue as: should Excel have each "worksheet" a separate
MIME object or is it ok to have the whole Excel spreadsheet the object with
MIME constructs going no lower?


Let the calendar experts define the construct in a manner which best fits
the application and let MIME do what it does best -- a container for
multiple documents.

Later...Rik


At 1:47 PM 12/8/96, Ken Shan wrote:
>Paul Rarey wrote:
>
>> Alec Dun wrote:
>
>> > The only argument I've seen so far is a vCalendar backward
>> > compatibility argument, but I would rather pay the compatibility price
>> > (since there isn't really much vCalendar out there) than bloat the code
>> > with all this extra parsing code.  I think customers want everyone's
>> > code to be fast and small so they don't have to buy so much memory for
>> > their machines.
>
>> It's hard to say no to a statement like that. It would seem a reusable
>> JAVA based MIME parser would help such that each application specific
>> component wouldn't have to include it's own MIME parser.
>
>Exactly how much code (in Java, say) is a MIME parser?  How much code
>is a hack on top of the MIME parser, for those who have it, to make it
>translate BEGIN/END markers into recursive MIME objects?
>
>It was argued that no personal digital assistants can ignore the
>Internet today.  Excuse my ignorance on this matter, but how much
>memory does a typical Windows CE palmtop machine has?  How much memory
>would be used on a typical Windows CE palmtop in order to implement
>MIME parsing?  How much would be used to implement BEGIN/END parsing?
>How much memory does Exchange and Schedule+ occupy on a typical
>Windows CE machine?  I think some hard numbers would help greatly.
>
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