Re: CBOR Tutorial from Romain on 2018-01-30 (public-publ-wg@w3.org from January 2018)

From: Romain <rdeltour@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:04:54 +0100
To: "Schindler Wolfgang Dr." <w.schindler@pons.de>
Cc: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, "Davis, Greg" <greg.davis@pearson.com>, Richard Wright <rkwright@geofx.com>, W3C Publishing Working Group <public-publ-wg@w3.org>
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On 30 Jan 2018, at 19:11, Schindler Wolfgang Dr. <w.schindler@pons.de <mailto:w.schindler@pons.de>> wrote:
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> Am I right then that for a content document in HTML CBOR only means a 1:1 translation of UTF-8 codes into a binary format that would have exactly the same file size. If this is true, I’m afraid I don’t see (yet?) the connection to Web Packaging and the rationale for exchanging a human-readable format for a binary format. Or do I perhaps miss decisive goodies?

With CBOR and Jeffrey’s spec, you can *bundle* resources together and exchange them as one cohesive resource. Since a publication is a *collection* of multiple resources, we need a format to package them.

Romain.

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