Re: merging media overlays

Marisa raises an interesting question, which we should discuss/ponder.

However, MO has real traction in the market, and to my mind is really a
part of EPUB so the merger makes sense to me.

And if/when Sync Media becomes the real evolution of MO in an EPUB 3.x (x >
3) maybe being merged works for it too?

Best,
   Garth




On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:34 PM Marisa DeMeglio <marisa.demeglio@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wonder how it would work with the future of Sync Media [1], which is
> looking more and more like an evolution of MO - would having a merged EPUB
> + MO slow us down in the future if we wanted to incorporate these ideas
> into a future (beyond 3.3) MO spec?
>
> Marisa
>
> 1. Proposed draft, waiting for CG feedback:
> https://raw.githack.com/w3c/sync-media-pub/wip/docs/new/sync-media.html
>
>
> On Sep 28, 2020, at 07:03, matt.garrish@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I’m slowly coming around to the idea of merging media overlays with the
> rest of the core, even if it is a bolt-on optional technology. The fact it
> was assigned a core 3.X incrementing number does make it stick out if not
> incorporated, but more usefully it just harmonizes things like the schema
> and vocabulary definitions together, and doesn’t require cross-referencing
> all the terminology.
>
> Here’s what it looks like merged:
> https://mattgarrish.github.io/publ-epub-revision/epub33x/spec/epub-core.html
>
> The one oddity is that the reading system behaviours are much better
> spelled out for media overlays than for the core specs, so we kind of go
> from almost bullet form things a reading system is required to do to prose
> explanations. But maybe that’s part of what we need to fix in terms of
> testing, too.
>
> Matt
>
>
>