Re: follow up on the discussion in HTML5 about metadata access

EPUB is not HTML, so it does not get interpreted by a HTML UA and
therefore not exposed through the HTML IDL. Even if there is HTML
somewhere in EPUB, you are not delivering a HTML file to the Web
browser but an EPUB file. If you want to interpret EPUB markup in a
Web browser you need a plugin.

Silvia.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com> wrote:
> HTML is a markup language that can be (and is!) used in MANY DIFFERENT areas.  To limit it (and it's design/development) to the "Web" is short-sighted and will only lead to interoperability problems in the future.
>
> Leonard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henri Sivonen [mailto:hsivonen@iki.fi]
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:37 AM
> To: Leonard Rosenthol
> Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer; tmichel@w3.org; public-html@w3.org; public-media-annotation@w3.org
> Subject: RE: follow up on the discussion in HTML5 about metadata access
>
> 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/
>
>

Received on Friday, 6 May 2011 01:43:40 UTC