Replace h-event 'description' with 'content' property

[tantek]

Splitting off from issue 2: it appears most (nearly all?) currently published h-event posts are using "content" (adopted from h-entry) instead of "description" (from mf1 hCalendar).

Should we drop "p-description" and replace it with "e-content" in h-event? (before transitioning h-event from Draft to Specification)

Are there any h-event (mf2, not backcompat mf1) consuming applications that depend on 'descripton'?

Are there any h-event (mf2, not backcompat mf1) publishers that only publish 'description' and not 'content'?

cc: @kevinmarks @Zegnat @aaronpk @martymcguire

(Originally published at: http://tantek.com/2018/074/b1/replace-event-description-with-content)

[kartikprabhu]

does this also change backcompat for h-event? http://microformats.org/wiki/h-event#Parser_Compatibility currently mf1 description has no mf2 equivalent. mf2py uses p-description

[gRegorLove]

My mf2 to iCalendar library consumes description. I use it on my site and a couple of external sites. I could update it pretty easily to prefer content if it exists, falling back to description.

I currently publish only h-event description property, not content. Same for those external sites.

[tantek]

https://github.com/kartikprabhu Yes this also changes backcompat for hCalendar, 'description' would be interpreted as 'p-content' for h-event.

https://github.com/gRegorLove yes try updating the consuming code to prefer 'content' over 'description' and see if everything still works. We may have to deprecate (rather than completely remove) 'p-description'. See how the consuming code update goes, and then see how much trouble it would be to update to publishing 'content' instead of 'description'.

(Originally published at: http://tantek.com/2018/074/t1/)

[Zegnat]

I wonder what this looks like in WordPress land? Ping @dshanske?

[gRegorLove]

mf2 to iCalendar 0.0.2 now prefers content over description. Deployed on my site and working well so far.

[kartikprabhu]

OK maybe the backcompat rules for h-event should be updated to convert description to p-content p-description

[gRegorLove]

https://github.com/aaronpk/XRay appears to parse description and summary but not content.

@aaronpk: thoughts on updating it to prefer content?

[aaronpk]

I'd be happy to update it! Pretty sure I just followed the spec when deciding which to look for in the first place

[gRegorLove]

Published examples using description:

• https://jeena.net/events/2
• https://martymcgui.re/2018/03/27/123344/

[dshanske]

Didn't notice this. I only publish h-events from Micropub, not native UI right now.