Since it's a .Mac / Safari feature, the "good thing for Apple to push" is probably covered. Out of curiosity though, what do vCards have to do with the Rendezvous spec?
Nothing - it's just that vCards, being a (semi) agreeded upon spec for importing and exporting address books, as a standarization technology, would seem to go well with Rendezvous, which is a network-discovery technology. Not much use to be able to automatically discover other computers if you can't sync information to them..
Now, if the W3C or someone (like Apple perhaps) came out with a standard for bookmarks, this could be (in time) implemented on various browsers, theoretically to everyone's benefit. Maybe something along this XML schema:
(this is broken XML syntax, but you get the point)
<XML DTD = "BookmarkList.dtd">
<bookmarklistowner NAME = "Joe Schmo" KEY = "jkh3XQ"></>
<bookmarklist type = "MENU" name = "Faviroties">
<bookmarkitem>
<name> "Weasly's Wizarding Weezes" </name>
<url> "http://www.mugglenet.net/weaslies/ww.html"; </url>
<dateadded> "4/1/2003" </dateadded>
<lastaccessed> "4/1/2004" </lastaccessed>
<timesaccessed> 5 </timesaccessed>
<keywords>
<kword> "harry potter" </kword>
<kword> "characters" </kword>
<kword> "parental rebellion" </kword>
</keywords>
</bookmarkitem>
</bookmarkseparator></>
</bookmarkitem HIERARCHICAL="true">
<name> "Other Fantasy Links" </name>
<bookmarklist>
[..]
</bookmarklist>
</bookmarkitem>
</bookmarklist> <bookmarklist type = "BUTTONBAR">
[..] </> <bookmarklist type = "DOCKICON">
[..] </>
</xml>Perhaps the separator could be a TYPE of <bookmarkitem>, or the <bookmarklist> TYPE and NAME attributes could be subelements in the XML - I'm not all that versed in the in's and outs of XML..
Not that this would necessarily be used by the browsers internally to represent things (though it possibly could..). But it would be a standard for importing and exporting, and then if you found another browser equipped computer (via Rendezvous or standard networking), a browser "owned" by the same person could could automatically sync bookmarks in this format.
It would have to be modified some to allow for diff comparisons to be reported with tags such as <bookmarkmissing> and <bookmarkadded> perhaps, but that's details..
Jim
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