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From: Andy Mabbett
Date: Jul 16, 2007 11:30AM

In message < <EMAIL REMOVED> >,
Tim Beadle < <EMAIL REMOVED> > writes

>On 13/07/07, Kevin Murphy < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> I'm in progress of writing this calendar (I figured it was easier to
>> write my own than trying to get any existing calendar to talk to my
>> mainframe system...).
>
>A slightly tangential thought: if you'd written a standard API (e.g.
>iCalendar) to your mainframe data, your users could use any iCalendar-
>supporting application, e.g. Apple iCal, Google Calendar, Mozilla
>Calendar/Sunbird and even the latest version of Outlook.
>
>See here for more about iCalendar:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

Again, not really an accessibility matter, but you could make it
understand and output the hCalendar microformat:

<http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar>;

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCalendar>;

--
Andy Mabbett

* Are you using Microformats, yet: <http://microformats.org/>; ?