- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 07:30:37 -0800
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
+1 As I understand it, one of the main reasons that the "Guidance" deliverable was included in the charter was exactly because the use of PDF files for profiles was considered a poor practice. However, it wasn't clear what the alternative would be, and thus the Guidance deliverable was included to respond to that. Although it doesn't say this directly, machine readability/parsability is a desirable goal. kc On 12/12/17 5:23 PM, Annette Greiner wrote: > On a separate note, I really want to discourage use of Word or PDF > files. One needn't be a coder to avail oneself of a simple text editor. > Machine readability deserves at least some consideration, and by machine > readability I don't mean just being viewable with a computer, I mean > being readily parseable. > > > On 12/12/17 2:02 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote: >> >> This may sound like a burden, but its quite a trivial burden on >> infrastructure compared to the burden on end users trying to work out >> what is the same and different in a forest of PDF documents of >> overlapping profiles descriptions. (whilst we want to make publication >> easy, make end use impossible is a poor compromise) >> >> > -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 (Signal) skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
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