Talk:ICalendar

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Can a iCalendar file contain empty lines ?

I am not really an expert and don't undestand all those technicall stuff. Maybe a short real-world example on how three users (on Apple with iCal, on Windows with Outlook and on Linux with Mozilla Calendar) would setup and share a calender and roughly how data is beeing synchronized.

The protocol should be transparent to the users if implemented properly. It's up to the application developers to conform to the standard. That said, I would think new lines would be OK; the standard is new enough. Also, I'm not sure I agree that it's too technical; these standard documents are written for programmers, and typically aren't intended to be interesting to the layperson. Other WP articles on technical protocols face the same dilemma as to how specific they should be. Ojcit 19:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apple iCal not fully compliant with the standard?

Outlook does do a terrible job with iCalendar although O12 is supposed to be way better. I'll need to look again but I remember iCal in OS X saving ICS files without any VTIMEZONE definitions and utilising their own internal (to iCal) time zones such as Europe/Amsterdam etc. in some custom X- field.

[edit] vEvent

This is the most important component and it is poorly documented here. Can someone help out with this? I'm reading the RFC but this is very unclear.

Full documentation of each feature would be beyond the scope of this article. I'd suggest looking at the soruce to some of the linux/gpl/etc. projects that implement the standard. Ojcit 19:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Howto

This article includes a howto, but WP:NOT a how-to guide. There are also too many weblinks. I think a cleanup is in order. Guy (Help!) 18:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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