While I agree with Olaf’s position, I don’t think the “good” terms would serve us well. Instead, I’d like to build on Ivan’s point in the use of SHOULD and make two small changes to the Portable (Web) Document definition: A **Portable (Web) Document** is a Web Document that should provide a graceful degradation when presented to the user even offline. A Portable Web Document should also be able to adapt to the user's needs. How’s that?? Leonard From: Ivan Herman Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 12:22 AM To: Olaf Drümmer Cc: W3C Digital Publishing IG, Leonard Rosenthol, Deborah Kaplan, Ralph Swick, Bill Kasdorf, Bill McCoy Subject: Re: [Glossary] Definition of a portable document (and other things...) On 07 Sep 2015, at 21:39 , Olaf Drümmer <olaf@druemmer.com<mailto:olaf@druemmer.com>> wrote: Would this discussion become easier if based on a starting point like: On 7 Sep 2015, at 16:48, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org<mailto:ivan@w3.org>> wrote: [[[ A **Web Document** is a uniquely identifiable and curated set of interrelated Web resources. A Web Document should be constructed of resources whose formats enable (individually or in conjunction with other resources in the same Web Document) a graceful adaptation to the users' needs. A **Portable (Web) Document** is a Web Document that has enough information to ensure a graceful degradation when presented to the user even offline. A Portable Web Document should also include enough information for a graceful adaptation to the user's needs. ]]] we distinguished between **Web Document** and **good Web Document** and also between **Portable (Web) Document** and **good Portable (Web) Document** Requirements like "graceful adaptation to the users' needs" are all fine, but some web documents might just not adapt gracefully and still would have to be called a web documents… I am a bit afraid of overcomplicating things by introducing too many terms. This is why it says "should" and not a "must": this is a pragmatic choice... Ivan Just my 2 cents… Olaf ---- 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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