Re: JS - inside or out?

Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com<mailto:lrosenth@adobe.com>> escrit:

Following up on a comment from the meeting on Monday:

>Ivan: "There is one big choice to be made - and this is whether the javascript that does the heavy lifting
> - is it something deployed as part of the publication, or external to a publication.
>

I feel very strongly that this isn't something we should be mandating either way.

If a given author wishes to include JS inside their publication to handle pagination or navigation - they should be able to do so.  However, we certainly don't want to require that, so we need a model that also allows for UA-provided navigation.


There are already significant conflicts in EPUB between user agents and EPUB content. What if a content author wants to intercept a touch event that's generally used by the UA for page turns or navigation? There's a constant desire to have publisher content take over some of the screen real estate used by reading system chrome.

What happens if I bundle all the Acme Labs JS into one of my test files, but then try to view it in a similar reading environment? I can imagine a Russian dolls scenario of navigation inside navigation inside navigation inside navigation...

I don't have a solution, but I think we do have some serious issues here.

Dave
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