Re: follow up on the discussion in HTML5 about metadata access

An ePub resource is not HTML, no matter how much HTML is inside that package.
Even when unpacked, the UA will not know what to do with the directory
and the files that come inside the package.
As you correctly state: a specialised HW or SW eBook reader is
required. A vanilla browser cannot display the eBook and requires a
plugin.

Once you are at the plugin level, you can provide all sorts of
additional functionality such as extracting metadata.

This is not a use case to introduce a metadata API into HTML.

Silvia.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Markku Hakkinen <mhakkinen@acm.org> wrote:
> The ePub 3.0 document content model is HTML5.  HTML5 UA's will be used
> to render ePub publications, embedded in hardware or software eBook
> readers.  Note that ePub is a container (like ZIP) that contains HTML5
> content and associated resources, which may include any audio and
> video referenced in the content.  In the eBook world, content is
> downloaded and read on a local device.
>
> mark
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> EPUB is not HTML, so it does not get interpreted by a HTML UA and
>> therefore not exposed through the HTML IDL. Even if there is HTML
>> somewhere in EPUB, you are not delivering a HTML file to the Web
>> browser but an EPUB file. If you want to interpret EPUB markup in a
>> Web browser you need a plugin.
>>
>> Silvia.
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com> wrote:
>>> HTML is a markup language that can be (and is!) used in MANY DIFFERENT areas.  To limit it (and it's design/development) to the "Web" is short-sighted and will only lead to interoperability problems in the future.
>>>
>>> Leonard
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Henri Sivonen [mailto:hsivonen@iki.fi]
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:37 AM
>>> To: Leonard Rosenthol
>>> Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer; tmichel@w3.org; public-html@w3.org; public-media-annotation@w3.org
>>> Subject: RE: follow up on the discussion in HTML5 about metadata access
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 16:52 -0700, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>>>> > Right now, all use cases discussed on the HTML WG list were solvable
>>>> > with server-side APIs.
>>>> >
>>>> That is NOT true, Silvia!
>>>>
>>>> I raised a number of use cases for non-browser-based UAs - for example
>>>> EPUB viewers - where server-side was NOT an option.
>>>
>>> Why would an .epub book need to be able to introspect its own metadata
>>> using a script?
>>>
>>> As for viewers, if the viewer wants to do stuff with metadata, it can
>>> implement whatever interfaces it wants for its own private use. They
>>> don't have to be standardized or exposed to scripts provided by the book
>>> itself.
>>>
>>> (I tend to get skeptical when a Web API is motivated by non-Web uses.
>>> The W3C has been down that road before. Has it ever been a good road?)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Henri Sivonen
>>> hsivonen@iki.fi
>>> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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