[charter] statement on EPUB4

• From: Cramer, Dave <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>
• Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:54:31 +0000
• To: W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <D4C867CA.12070%dave.cramer@hbgusa.com>

The charter draft [1]  contains this sentence on EPUB 4:

> This specification defines a profile of Packaged Web Publications that
>delivers a higher degree
> of comprehensive accessibility capabilities and reliability.
> This specification should be as close as possible to a strict functional
>superset of EPUB 3.1,
> with incompatibilities minimized.

What does ³incompatibilities minimized² mean? For a concrete example,
would using the HTML serialization be ok for EPUB4? Would it have to use
exactly the same packaging mechanism?

I would hope that all profiles of web publications would be reliable and
comprehensively accessible.

More generally, I¹m wary of defining restrictions like this at such an
early stage. What is this statement trying to accomplish?

Thanks,

Dave Cramer

[1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/dpubwg-charter/a11y-core/index.html

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Received on Tuesday, 14 February 2017 12:55:06 UTC