I have a request for a script to view vcards from gmail as all you can do from gmail is download the "VCARD".vcf file by clicking the link. It would be great if you had a button covering the .vcf download link which when clicked, displayed the vcard in standard format (as you would see it from an email client). I would implement this script myself if I wasn't such a dunce when it came to javascript!

Thanks in advance.

Is everyone bored of making gmail scripts???

BUMP

What are vcards? I looked in my gmail page and I couldn't find a download link for "vcards". Are they contacts?

Yes it's for contacts... it's like an electronic business card... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vcard

So where is the download link for "vcards"?

This is all I see: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/thegoodd...

"So where is the download link for "vcards"?

This is all I see: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/thegoodd..."

You don't get a download link for a vcard all you get is the option to download the .vcf file (which is attached to the email as a regular file would be). Using an email client the .vcf is automatically (or on demand) downloaded and displayed in a window.

This is a .vcf in raw form (the XXXs are where my personal details are):

begin:vcard
fn:XXXXXXXXXX
n:XXXXXXXXX;Tom
org;quoted-printable:XXXXXXXXXXXX Computing
adr;dom:;;;XXXXXXworth;UK;XXX XXX
email;internet:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX@googlemail.com
title:XXXXXXXXXXXX
tel;cell:XXXXX XXXXXX
version:2.1
end:vcard

And here is a kinda crap screenshot of what a vcard looks like when viewed in thunderbird.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7317/screens...

You don't get a download link for a vcard all you get is the option to download the .vcf file (which is attached to the email as a regular file would be). Using an email client the .vcf is automatically (or on demand) downloaded and displayed in a window.

I'm totally confused. :P

LMAO!

Sorry im terrible at explaining things. What i mean is that when you send an email with an email client (aslong as it is set up to do so) it attaches a file to the email, the extension of the file is .vcf (in the .vcf is the "code" i described above). When you receive an email with a .vcf attached to it your email client can display the information (name, phone, address) in a window (http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7317/screens...) and usually by default save it.

It would just be nice to have this functionality within gmail.

Ahh, now I get it. Yeah that should be possible.

Time permitting, I'll try and write it up in the next couple of days.

Thanks alot m8 :)

tomatz can you send me a test .vcf file? My email it forboden at gmail dot com

Cheers.