Oh, you so just put a huge smile on my face :D
Thanks for the technorati link. I was unaware of this, and it makes all
the work I did on microformats on my staff listing page worth it.
(http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ads/about/staff.htm)
Thanks.
Lucien.
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Lucien Stals
Multimedia/Web Developer
Academic Development and Support
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218 Hawthorn, 3122, Australia
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>>> On 2/08/2007 at 1:30 pm, "Brad Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> vCard's (.vcf files) will also open in a Mac OS X Address book.
> Not everyone will have a VCF compatible address book and hence an
attempt
> should be made to educate/explain their use.
>
> You should mark up the displayed address information as an hCard:
> http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
> ... and then use the technorati vcard generator
> http://technorati.com/contact to scrape the page and produce your
vcard for
> you
>
> Can someone please suggest a cool icon for vCard downloads? It must
be 2.0
> of course :-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joyce Evans
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:51 PM
> Subject: [WSG] vCard File
>
>
> I think there may have been a discussion regarding the vCard File
> recently, and if there was, I didn't study those emails because I
didn't have
> to deal with it at the time. Today, however, I got a new project of
> re-creating a website with the current design. On this client's
contact
> page, there is a link to the .vcf file, which when I click on it, the
> client's contact information appears in the Contacts section of my
Outlook
> program. I've never seen a link to a vCard File on a website until
today.
> Is it okay to have this link? What happens if the visitor to the
website
> does not use Outlook? Thank you.
>
>
>
> Joyce
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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