Re: HTML tags in org, name, etc

[Andrew Gilmartin <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:45 PM 7/11/97 PDT, Jeremy Gaither wrote:

>Who owns the vCard?  Not the standard, but the personal vCard?

You don't seem to understand the intent of things like vCard. vCard is for
the exchange of data between two programs. Like all good programs they are
too dumb to understand the broad variability of the content and so they are
provided with very simple rules to handle it instead. The vCard definition
are these rules for information about person for dumb programs.

A vCard document is just like a filled-out form. When you fill out a form
asking for your name and company affiliation you don't specify the format
just the details. Even if your company has stringent requirements how its
name is presented -- face, color, location on the page, relationship to
product name, relationship to other company names, etc. -- it would be
detrimental to all parties to have to deal with irrelevant presentation
issues. 

If you want to associate presentation with your vCard then you need to do
so within the definition. Given that vCard's data design allows for
parameters defined outside the scope of the standard you should work on
defining presentation parameter hints. 

-- Andrew


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