Re: [Minutes] EPUB Virtual Locator TF, 2021-06-02

Hey, Laurent. We are indeed talking (talking) about standardizing the algorithm. The short version is "use page-list if present, and if not do something dead-simple like divide by 1000."

We're still pretty far from writing a spec, but we are talking about standardization here.


> On Jun 3, 2021, at 9:55 AM, Laurent Le Meur <laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org> wrote:
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> Hi everybody,
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> Sorry for not having been able to participate to the call.
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> About use case line 2 ("A teacher wants to ask students to go to a certain location in an EPUB which contains no explicit page-list. The students are using different types of reading systems, nevertheless all reach the same page. ")
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> We currently are working in this area in the Readium Developers' community. I don't want to be pessimistic but I believe this will not happen. If page lists are present, ok the mechanism is documented and it is not about virtual locators, but UX and the ability to jump to a location identified by an html fragment id. But if no page lists are present, each reading system has its recipe to calculate "positions" (as we call it at Readium) aka virtual page numbers. "positions" are calculated per resource first, then agglomerated to form a sequence. For instance it may be the size of the compressed file (in the zip) divided by 1024. Or the size of the (decompressed) html content divided by 2500. Either this group wants to standardize the algorithm, or the use case is IMHO void. 
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> Best regards
> Laurent
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>> Le 3 juin 2021 à 15:23, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org <mailto:ivan@w3.org>> a écrit :
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>> Minutes are here:
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>>  https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/epub-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2021-06-02-epub-locators <https://www.w3.org/publishing/groups/epub-wg/Meetings/Minutes/2021-06-02-epub-locators>
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