iCalendar is a curious little interface. It looks like something from my old windows 3.11 days, but it may prove to be an interesting addition to my coding tool box.
iCalendar is a text file specification with a MIME-TYPE(I'll talk about them latter, maybe). It looks so odd because it was built by the lotus notes crew. Basically it is a text representation of a Outlook Calendar Event. This means that you can embed a link in a web page using this technology that will download an Outlook Calendar event to the user of your web page.
"You have a confirmed showing appoint?""Click here to add to Outlook!"
The following is an example of a simple calendar event. The file extension needs to be set to ".ics"
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:19970714T170000Z
DTEND:19970715T035959Z
SUMMARY:Bastille Day Party
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
This is a link to a fuller article on Wikipedia about iCaledar Data Exchange wiki - ICalendar
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