A trick if you want to read a spec on the plane…

Some of you may have a long trip when coming to the F2F, and you may decide to use your time reading one of our drafts (or any other related W3C documents) while you are offline at 10,000 feet. A small trick that you may want to use: if you look at the editor’s draft (i.e., when it is still managed via respec), and if you push the respec button on the upper right hand corner, one of the choices is to download the document in epub format (if you do not know this format, it is the one used by all e-book readers these days except Kindle). You can then load the epub into a reader if your choice and off you go!, you can read the document offline… It is better (in my view, but I am biased) than doing the same in PDF: any decent e-book reader will give you the possibility to adapt, e.g., the font sizes and reformat for your particular screen, which PDF is not able to do.

It is not perfect; the readers may not properly render things and the generated epub is not 100% compliant. That being said, on my iPad both Apple’s Book application (which is delivered with the iPad) and, for example, the (free) Marvin 3 reader does a good job…

Just an idea:-)

Ivan

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Ivan Herman
World Wide Web Consortium
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