Re: ATAG2 Glossary work:

Thanks for doing this work.

Since authoring tool definition is "normative", I have a few questions:

(1) Do we need a definition of "software" for "authoring tool"?

(2) Does the Web Content produced by the "authoring tool" actually
have to be "published", or is the intent to "publish" sufficient for this 
definition?

Just wondering..

Best, Tim Boland



At 12:48 PM 9/7/2007 -0400, you wrote:


>Definition of authoring tool
>
>This section is *normative.*
>
>ATAG 2.0 defines an "authoring tool" as any software, or *collection of
>software components*, that *authors* use to create or modify *Web
>content* for *publishing*.
>
>This definition covers a wide range of products including:
>- plain text editors
>- WYSIWYG editors
>- productivity software that can output Web content technologies
>- content management systems
>- site management tools
>- courseware tools
>- blogging tools
>- content aggregators
>- conversion tools
>- model-based authoring tools
>- wikis
>- etc.
>
>
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