Re: HTML tags in org, name, etc

["Jeremy Gaither" <jgaither@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Again, I want to emphasize that the vCard standard 
> says nothing about formatting, and it does so for 
> a very good reason: it is a content exchange 
> mechanism, not a display format. If a vCard 
> displayer wants to add smarts by bolding personal 
> names and so on, that's fine, but it is not part 
> of the standard and shouldn't be.

Who owns the vCard?  Not the standard, but the personal vCard?  The 
person creating it (their personal vCard), or the person they are giving 
it to?  Shouldn't the person creating that vCard have some say in how 
some of that 'content' should be displayed?  Or could the vCard markups 
not be embedded within other forms of exchange?  EMail, HTML?  If the 
vCard markups could be embedded into an HTML file (not seperate), then 
the user could control how it looks.  Applications could then still use 
the data object of the vCard w/o the markup.

I understand that this is more a job for the HTML standards committee, 
and possibly application developers.  vCard might be a good format to 
use to devise a method of enclosing meta-content within a web page, and 
then let the web page designer control how to use the meta-content.

Should vCard be a seperate format definition or a content transport 
mechanism?  Or have their just been no implementations of available 
options that allow these things?

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Jeremy Gaither <jgaither@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[HTML content restrained :) ]

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