Re: iCalendar as an XML DTD

[Phil Wolff <pwolff@xxxxxxxx>]

Please consider the relative populations of developers who know about and are developing to the iCalendar spec vs. those now developing to XML. I've been hanging out in mozilla.org
newsgroups where about 10000 postings went up in the first two weeks they were online. imho, XML is going to be the dominant new protocol for 1999 and specs like iCalendar can ride
that wave of acceptance by speaking the language.
    By this fall, Navigator, Mozilla, and IE will have XML parsers and, according to all the specs I've seen, will not have iCal parsers.
    Wouldn't it be advantageous to have one representation for both calendaring tools and browsers? If so, then XML is your only choice. The delay to rewrite (2-4 weeks), might be
worth the acceptance.

my two cents.

Phil

Anita wrote:

>         Chris wrote,
> <<<<
>         Reliability is much more important to a calendaring app than to a browser,
> so the calendaring app should be simple and independent, IMHO.
> >>>>
>
> IMO that is not the reason NOT to work on XML DTD.
> The developer community would definitely benefit from an XML representation for iCalendar objects. And would prefer not to have to deal with multiple grammers and parsers as well.
>
> Anita
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> (Anita Kulkarni-Puranik
> Ruksun software Technologies
> Pune, INDIA
> http://www.ruksun.com)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Chris Newman [SMTP:Chris.Newman@innosoft.com]
> Sent:   Thursday, April 16, 1998 2:58 AM
> To:     Mark Baker
> Cc:     IETF calsch WG
> Subject:        RE: iCalendar as an XML DTD
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Mark Baker wrote:
> > Straw poll.  Who here *wouldn't* like to be able to present and interact
> > with calendars via style sheets in a browser?
>
> I wouldn't.  Browsers are already too bloated and buggy.  It's bad enough
> having my browser crash regularly when I'm trying to find useful
> information, but if it corrupted my calendar at the same time that would
> be completely intolerable.
>
> Reliability is much more important to a calendaring app than to a browser,
> so the calendaring app should be simple and independent, IMHO.
>
>                 - Chris
>
> "The bigger the hammer is, the more likely you are to hit your thumb."


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