Re: URLs in iCalendar events

Chad Little wrote:

> HI, we don't have support for the URL property tag of RFC2445. To my 
> knowledge I haven't seen an application that uses is and it's never 
> been requested by our audience.

Erm, Apple iCal, Mozilla Calendar? I presume I'm referring to the right 
part of the RFC. A URL attached to an event.

> You can put URLs directly into the Description field and we'll convert 
> them into an href upon displace. I also believe we do this for the 
> Location field as well.

Oh OK. Just a note on this, whilst experimenting I've noticed that URLs 
in the description field don't work consistently between normal view and 
printer friendly view if written in HTML.
For example, if I type...

<a href="http://example.com/page.htm";>more...</a>

into a description field, if you click on the event in a normal view you 
get a popup in which the HTML breaks. If you go to printer friendly 
view, the HTML is parsed correctly and works as intended.

If you don't use HTML and just type a URL in plain text, it becomes a 
link as you describe in normal view and is not clickable in printer 
friendly view which is fair enough.

A demo of this can be seen at:
http://www.catmosearts.co.uk/calendar/week.php?cal=all_calendars_combined971&getdate=20050209

I suppose this is just because you're not supposed to put HTML in event 
descriptions! But the inconsistency is a little frustrating.

> If you want to submit a feature request, please do so on the 
> Sourceforge site and attach a sample calendar.

OK, thanks :)

Ben

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