- From: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:33:38 +0000
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>, Dave Cramer <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, Tzviya Siegman <tsiegman@wiley.com>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
PWP specific - particularly the reuse of a packaged publication being served in a non-packaged fashion (or vice-versa). For example, while most font foundries allow for fonts to be embedded into an EPUB because of the methods used (e.g. Subsetting and/or obfuscation), those same foundries do not allow their fonts to be used as “web fonts” (or at least not without a separate license). In the same vein, the web font vendors only license their fonts for web use and not for packaging. On a related note, there is also the question of what font format(s) can/should be supported within a PWP since those used today for EPUB aren’t necessary compatible with OWP technologies. (and there is more - but this should give you a taste) As Heather notes, the issues could be solved with a best practices type of guide - but until the details are exposed, reviewed and resolved - it’s unclear what the correct vehicle(s) would be. Leonard On 12/2/15, 12:14 AM, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> wrote: >Leonard, > >> On 2 Dec 2015, at 06:18, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com> wrote: >> >> At some point, this group should probably start a subgroup focused on various font-related issues as there are a number of both technical and legal issues that come up in the content of non-packaged publications and their use of fonts. > >I do not question the fact that there may be issues with fonts (I copy Chris explicitly, because he is much more knowledgable than I am). However, the question is whether these issues are publication specific or general Web issues. If the latter, then I am not sure that type of work is in the scope of this IG… > >Can you be more specific what you have in mind to be able to decide this? > >Thanks > >Ivan > > > >> >> Leonard >> >> >> >> >> On 12/1/15, 9:09 AM, "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> wrote: >> >>> >>>> On 1 Dec 2015, at 18:03, Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I understand this for Acme. However, thinking it further in direction of a >>>>> more sophisticated reader: is it necessary to store all the file references? >>>>> After all, I would expect the Service Worker may find out on the fly that a >>>>> resource is to be cached. >>>>> >>>>> This may be important for the production site. This means I do not have to >>>>> list the references of all the images, js and css files, etc, just the 'top >>>>> level' files to trigger the process and those could be cached. >>>>> >>>>> Of course, there is a danger that the reader would cache too much, eg, >>>>> remote references that the content refers to. So maybe the manifest could >>>>> contain some sort of URI patterns, saying to the reader: "if the URI matches >>>>> one of these patterns, cache it". >>>>> >>>> >>>> I would assume that all of the reading system's app resources would be >>>> cached "immediately" (i.e. as early as possible in the bootstrap >>>> process), so that the reading system itself is available offline. >>> >>> Absolutely. >>> >>>> However, publication content would be cached according to a particular >>>> strategy (on-demand vs. preload, LRU eviction, etc.), in terms of >>>> offline-ing multiple publications, but also in terms of offline-ing >>>> resources within a given publication (partial fetch vs. full cache). >>> >>> Right. But, additionally, I think providing some level of content provider option may be necessary (inclusion patterns, exclusion patterns, etc.). >>> >>> We used this example before: a publication may refer to very large font files. In some cases, those fonts are for fanciness; ie, it is perfectly o.k. if the reader does not cache those and, in case it is offline, falls back to some system fonts. In other cases those fonts are essential because, for example, they display mathematical symbols or musical notes: in this case the font must be cached, too, for proper offline use. This cannot really be covered algorithmically; it is up to the creator of the publication to control this. >>> >>> Ivan >>> >>> >>>> Dan >>> >>> >>> ---- >>> Ivan Herman, W3C >>> Digital Publishing Lead >>> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ >>> mobile: +31-641044153 >>> ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704 >>> >>> >>> >>> > > >---- >Ivan Herman, W3C >Digital Publishing Lead >Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ >mobile: +31-641044153 >ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704 > > > >
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