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RSS And Calendar Integration

Posted by Hemos on from the trying-to-make-it-work dept.

sytelus writes "Many has played with the idea of packaging calendar information in to the RSS feed. Almost every other website owned by some kind of group or organization has an event calendar so the thought of aggregating those events in to your calendar is pretty appealing. Even more appealing is the thought that people might start tagging their weekend plans and schedules in their RSS feeds. This essay , written after digging through dozens of W3C specs and half a dozen of implementations, reviews the current state of affair."

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  1. What's Wrong with iCal? by glamslam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Works for me.... Does everything *have* to be XML??!??

    1. Re:What's Wrong with iCal? by spencerogden · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Maybe because it is hardly worth creating a standard for scheduling if its not supported in Outlook? I would imagine that among people who use a scheduling app on a regular basis, Outlook has an even better lock on the market than IE.

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      Spencer Ogden

  2. Re:Umm by spencerogden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of his main points is that one thing RSS does well is provide a good subscription method. IE a well defined standard on, "go here to get an updated version of this calendar". Sounds like he is proposing using RSS with an iCal payload. The idea is to leverage existing support of the iCal into a subscription model.

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    Spencer Ogden