On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Brian Kelly wrote:
Hi Ryan
Sorry for the delay in replying to this.
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On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Brian Kelly wrote:
However I've encountered a number of irritating problems:
Problems with British Summer Time (Daylight Saving Time).
What problems, specifically?
Times being an hour out. Not a hCalendar problem, I understand,
but ba
complexiyty of processing times. However I had expected that
software would have realised that BST was in operation - I
understand that I have to use the UTC time +1.00.00.00.
I'm not sure how BST can be assumed here?
Another problem - going to, for example,
http://www.bath.ac.uk/whats-on/getevent.php?event_id=3010&catIds=ALL
Tails use the correct date (17 July) whereas the Google hCalendar
Greeasemonkey script uses a date of 16 July.
I'm not familiar that greasemonkey script. You may want to talk to
its author.
I've been told that this is a well-known problem in handling date
and time
information, and is not directly related to microformats or the
software which processes microformats. However it strikes me
that we
will need to ensure that end users (and microformat maintainers)
are
aware of such limitations. It also strikes me that there's a
need for consistency across the software vendors - which then
leads on to (a) more rigorous documentation
regarding what should be done and (b) test cases. Is anyone working
on this?
Yes. hCalendar test cases are in progress at
http://hg.microformats.org/tests .
Is this the correct URL - it seems to be a change log rather than a
page
described the test cases.
Its a Mercurial repository. Hence the 'in progress' qualifier The
stable tests are published at http://microformats.org/tests/ .Of
course, that doesn't really have any explanatory material, either.
...
I think there's a need for documentation on bugs in well-used
software such as Outlook.
We have some already:
http://microformats.org/wiki/vcard-implementations
http://microformats.org/wiki/icalendar-implementations
Thanks - it is aimed at programmers ...
Well, that's what we are. :D
...
There is also a need to define what hCard tools should do if they
encounter multiple occurrences of hCards. I understand that Brian
Suda's Web- based XSLT service processes the first occurrence on a
page,
No, it processes all of them.
If I use the bookmarklet on the
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/
sessions/kelly/
I get one hCard, whereas Tails correctly displays two.
I can't currently access that URL. I'll try again later.
-ryan
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