- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 10:36:30 +0300
- To: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, "tmichel@w3.org" <tmichel@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, "public-media-annotation@w3.org" <public-media-annotation@w3.org>
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 16:52 -0700, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > > Right now, all use cases discussed on the HTML WG list were solvable > > with server-side APIs. > > > That is NOT true, Silvia! > > I raised a number of use cases for non-browser-based UAs - for example > EPUB viewers - where server-side was NOT an option. Why would an .epub book need to be able to introspect its own metadata using a script? As for viewers, if the viewer wants to do stuff with metadata, it can implement whatever interfaces it wants for its own private use. They don't have to be standardized or exposed to scripts provided by the book itself. (I tend to get skeptical when a Web API is motivated by non-Web uses. The W3C has been down that road before. Has it ever been a good road?) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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