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

Only in the way that PDF, smil, flash, or any other non-HTML content can be called "web content". IMO they are not a native part of the web, but an adjunct and require extra plugins to work in the Web browser. That you can serve any content from a Web server doesn't make it part of the Web, only part of the Internet.

Regards,
Silvia.

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On 11/05/2011, at 5:27 AM, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:

> 
> Le 6 mai 2011 à 19:14, Silvia Pfeiffer a écrit :
>> I'm not going to elaborate this any further, but once you package it
>> with additional resource and give it a different name, you have
>> created a new resource type that is not "just supported" by UAs.
> 
> huh? I might be missing something. It is perfectly possible to create a UA which deal with ePub content. Just stating the obvious below
> 
> The UA Request 
> 
>   GET /path/bovary.epub HTTP/1.1
>   Host: www.example.com
>   User-Agent: Web-ebook-reader
>   Accept: application/epub
>   Accept-Language: fr
> 
> The server Response
> 
>   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   Accept-Ranges: bytes
>   Content-Length: 1234567
>   Content-Type: application/epub
>   …
> 
>> It's not Web content any more.
> 
> It *is* Web content. The fact that browsers can't unpack it is completely unrelated to the nature of the content. Any client can be developed to process it. 
> It is indeed not HTML5 content. 
> 
> 
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> Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
> Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
> 

Received on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 21:36:27 UTC