- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:42:48 -0400
- To: Mike Perlman <perlmanm@me.com>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 16:41 +0200, Mike Perlman wrote: > > Right now only a single file PWP works and I ask - apart from non- > core reasons - what is the benefit of multi-file container for the > offline document? Encyclopedia Britcannica.html (say) is fairly large - and an aircraft manual might be 150,000 printed pages or more, so "chunking" is often done for performance reasons. Another reason is that it makes updates easier - e.g. you bought The Two Towers and now want the other two volumes of Lord of the Rings, viewed as a single book, but without losing your bookmarks and annotations. However, this is weaker since in many such use cases a "merge" step is needed - e.g. you bought the medical supplement to your dictionary, now you want to add the legal supplement, and there are some terms in common. But it might be that's for the future. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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