tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post4783868062237903773..comments2024-03-29T03:42:44.933-04:00Comments on Half an Hour: Semantic Web - Some ResponsesStephen Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06140591903467372209noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11679714.post-81907622667716243212007-03-24T16:59:00.000-04:002007-03-24T16:59:00.000-04:00Hi Stephen,You made a few mistakes on the iCal fro...Hi Stephen,<BR/><BR/>You made a few mistakes on the iCal front:<BR/><BR/>- iCal is the Apple desktop application<BR/><BR/>- iCalendar is the general name of the IETF calendar spec <BR/><BR/>- David White's study you quoted was asking "do you use iCal", not "Do you use a calendaring system that uses the iCalendar spec? So the adoption figure looks about right; i.e. about 90% of mac users, and 0% of everyone else<BR/><BR/>- Google Calendar DOES use iCalendar (I use both Google and Apple iCal, and use iCalendar to synch them) <BR/><BR/>- Yahoo Calendar also uses iCalendar<BR/><BR/>- Windows Vista now includes Windows Calendar, based on... yep, iCalendar<BR/><BR/>- So actually, the figures suggest that use of iCalendar-based systems now exceed use of non-standards-based calendars (Outlook), and that most of that usage is of web-based services<BR/><BR/>Not at all related to the RDF argument really*, but thought I'd better point it out as I saw a similar statement in another post you made lately.<BR/><BR/>* Except to say that all iCalendar-based sytems I've seen, including Yahoo, Google, Apple, etc, all use the very old-fashioned semicolon and line-break delimited file format - none of them use any of the RDF equivalents.<BR/><BR/>SScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360976971169846084noreply@blogger.com