Comments on: Extracting iCalendar feeds from embedded Google calendars http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/05/04/extracting-icalendar-feeds-from-embedded-google-calendars/ Strategies for Internet citizens Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tim http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/05/04/extracting-icalendar-feeds-from-embedded-google-calendars/#comment-127509 Tue, 05 May 2009 04:24:09 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=1487#comment-127509 There are reasons people hardly publish ICS links:

1) lack of standardization although RFC 2445 now has reached Proposed Standard status and that may change

2) Regular calendar tools don’t make it easy to publish calendar info in human-readable (HTML) and ICS form. Outlook for example allows you to share calendars as ICS but we need to _easily_ create an ICS for an entire set of calendar objects _and_ one item per entry (one use case: Team schedules. Maybe you just want to open a link to add that one important game, rather than the whole schedule)

3) Javascript implementations don’t allow you to open ‘text/calendar’ files, usually only ‘text/html’.

There are probably others but those are three I can think of

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