The problem with hCalendar

Posted on Saturday 5 May 2007

The Web Standards Project has an good explanation of what we think is the single biggest problem with hCalendar — overloading the HTML title attribute.

Their article doesn’t mention one other problem with overloading title attributes — the appearance of (seemingly) gibberish tooltips when a user mouses over a date or time. Given the rapidity with which bugs in our tooltips are reported to us, we think that this is (an underappreciated aspect of) an underappreciated problem with hCalendar.

We join with The Web Standards Project in encouraging microformats to address this problem in hCalendar. In the meantime, if you want to interoperate with Mosuki, we encourage you to use our iCalendar support to import and export events from us.


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