A vCard is an industry standard format. It works in Outlook or Windows Address Book in Windows, Entourage and Address Book in OS X and if your mobile phone was released in the last 5 or so years, likely it as well.

vCard files are often attached to outgoing emails in the corporate world as a better alternative to a text signature.

If you're considering including vCards, it might be worth checking out microformats (http://microformats.org/) while you're at it.

Kit Grose

On 02/08/2007, at 12.51 PM, Joyce Evans wrote:

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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