Calendar Plug-in

[Tom Weir]

You may wish to take a look at the IETF's "Calendaring and Scheduling"
working group if you wish to store things in a 'standard' way. At the very
least, you may be able to steal some ideas, as waiting for internet
standards to be finalized is somewhat akin to watching paint dry (which is
actually far more enjoyable...try it sometime ;)

Working group homepage:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html
iCalendar DTD:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-calsch-many-xcal-01.txt

hope this is useful, I'm watching your progress with interest.

Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Ablaza [mailto:bablaza at stargroup1.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:39 AM
To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
Subject: Re: Calendar Plug-in


>
>Anyway, I would like to be included in any future discussions regarding
>co-operation among the various calendar projects. A feature rich event
>planner / driver built on Frontier would be dynamite!
>

I think a good place to start would be to agree on an xml definition 
for calendar data. I've looked at a few proposed structures on the 
Net, but they seem too complicated (at least for my purposes). I'd 
like to see something simple, with required and optional elements.

If we had a standard xml def, we could abstract form from content. As 
long as my renderer can parse the xml, it wouldn't matter what the 
underlying data manipulation and storage structures are, or where the 
calendar was being hosted, for that matter.

Would like to hear from Adam Curry, Marcus et. al. on this. They have 
obviously worked out some type of rss-based format. Can we find out 
what they're doing?

Brian Ablaza
Chief Technology Officer
Star Interactive

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