RE: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-21 Thread Heiner Wolf
Hi, I know these requirements. Our users were not satisfied with the vcard. Vcard basically has contact information. Users of very much chat oriented communities demand more personal information like hobbies, eyecolor, zodiac sign and more. We created a separate xml data structure containing:

Re: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-21 Thread Richard Dobson
Is that not then a bug in the client, for failing to validate that the string which was entered is valid according to the JEP? Hardly a good reason for adding a redundant element to the vCard. (Who stops someone entering anything they want in this new age field, anyway?) Yes, my point is that t

Re: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-20 Thread Sergei Golovan
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:59:48AM +1000, Trejkaz Xaoza wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:11, Sergei Golovan wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > > > You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt > > > you? > > > > Many clients (Psi, Ga

Re: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-20 Thread Oleg V. Motienko
Trejkaz Xaoza пишет: On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:11, Sergei Golovan wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt you? Many clients (Psi, Gaim etc.) treat birthday field as a text field. So it'

Re: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-20 Thread Trejkaz Xaoza
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:11, Sergei Golovan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > > You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt > > you? > > Many clients (Psi, Gaim etc.) treat birthday field as a text field. So it's > not easy to parse

Re: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-20 Thread Sergei Golovan
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt you? Many clients (Psi, Gaim etc.) treat birthday field as a text field. So it's not easy to parse the date, entered by user. -- Sergei Golovan ___

Re: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-20 Thread Trejkaz Xaoza
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:25, Richard Dobson wrote: > You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt you? Exactly. Don't get me started on why *cough*ICQ*cough* has both Age and DoB fields, and lets them get out of sync really easily. But what about gender? Sounds like som

Re: [jdev] newer version of vcard

2004-10-20 Thread Richard Dobson
You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt you? Richard - Original Message - From: "Oleg V. Motienko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: [jdev] newer version of vcard Hello! Is there newer version of