Re: Definition of website--Sorry, hit button too soon!

I am also concerned that we not exclude non-html technologies. I 
understand the need to restrict the delivery of a website to a user 
agent (otherwise it could also include "software" which is defined 
separately by W3C), but there is enough content being delivered that is 
not based on html that we should be sure to include it in our definition.

I think this would also be compatible with WCAG 2.0's 
"technology-agnostic" approach.

Mike


> That seems to be a more technically specific description Denis.

I wonder whether we need to extend either description to reference page 
assets as well though?

Flash/PDF/Silverlight/whatever entities for example?
>
> Léonie.
On 10/3/2011 12:59 AM, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
> Hi Denis,
>
> Short: what is it that you are trying to fix? ;)
>
> Long: please explain what issues you see with the current proposal and
> some of the rationale for your suggestion. In particular, I'm not sure
> what is meant by an "organized" vs "un-organized" set of related pages
> and why you want to restrict a website to something being on a single
> "web server". Also, the "HTTP protocol" and "accessed by a user agent"
> aspects are already in the WCAG2 definition of a web page so I think
> there is no need to repeat that in the definition of "website".
>
> Best,
>   Shadi
>
>
> On 3.10.2011 06:24, Denis Boudreau wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Having looked at the current I'd like to propose, if I may, another
>> definition for what a "website" is.
>>
>> Right now, we have: "A coherent collection of one or more related web
>> pages that together provide common use or functionality. It includes
>> static web pages, dynamically generated web pages, and web
>> applications".
>>
>> I think something along the lines of the following would cover more
>> ground and circumscribe more efficiently what we mean by "website":
>>
>> "An organized set of related web pages using HTML or XHTML, linked in
>> a coherent structure, hosted on a Web server, accessed by a user
>> agent and governed by the HTTP or the HTTPS protocol".
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> /Denis
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