On 4/7/05 23:00, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Not so. Different applications use different fields, and omit several fields >> (usually non-standard fields, even many phone fields are excluded) from the >> vCards they export, whereas their tab-text and .csv exports tend to include >> all fields (in Entourage's case all except Categories). > > You'd think that 95% of everyone's contacts would have the first 10 fields > identical - you could take a survey and decide an ordering of WORK/HOME > address, phone, email and cell phone. Then you could vary from there. > Astrological sign, whatever. > > It seems bizarre to me, with Americans spending two hours a day on average > dealing with email, that there is not more of a standard happening here. It > is in everyone's best interest that the customer's data is not hostage to a > proprietary system that crashes. > > Maybe Paul and Microsoft should call a conference, let everyone talk, and > SET THE STANDARDS for at least the first 10 fields. Well, that's hard to do when no one can agree on address book implementations. Heck, on my Audiovox 6600, I have *two*, thanks to the stupidity of Goodlink. The one that shipped with it allows for three postal addresses, Goodlink's allows for two. Getting a postal address at all is not yet common in the phone/mobile world. About the only thing you can guarantee is a name and a phone number. Even that is fraught with danger. For example, on the Motorola Razrv3, you have to deal with the fact that EVERY phone number or email address is a separate entry. So all you get there is name and ONE phone number or email address per entry. There's no point in setting a standard on the first n fields until we set a standard on what to DO with them. john -- �Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" C.f. Edison -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
