[jdev] newer version of vcard

[Sergei Golovan]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:59:48AM +1000, Trejkaz Xaoza wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:11, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote:
> > > You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt
> > > you?
> >
> > Many clients (Psi, Gaim etc.) treat birthday field as a text field. So it's
> > not easy to parse the date, entered by user.
> 
> Is that not then a bug in the client, for failing to validate that the string 
> which was entered is valid according to the JEP?  Hardly a good reason for 
> adding a redundant element to the vCard.  (Who stops someone entering 
> anything they want in this new age field, anyway?)

Yes, my point is that this is the bug (or probably misfeature) in clients.
But the problem is that the bug is present in very popular clients. But anyway
adding age field is not a good idea.

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Sergei Golovan