- From: Jeanne Spellman <jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:36:16 -0400
- To: MATF <public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org>
I took an action to look for existing definitions of web content in W3C. It turns out, that is a concept that everyone understands and does not define. :) Here are some of the definitions of web content that I have found in existing W3C documents pertaining to mobile. I didn't find anything helpful, despite looking at the definitions in about 20 Mobile specs. Definition of Web Application - from Mobile Web Application Best Practices (2010) 1) https://www.w3.org/TR/mwabp/#webapp-defined For the purposes of this document, the term "Web application" refers to a Web page (XHTML or a variant thereof + CSS) or collection of Web pages delivered over HTTP which use server-side or client-side processing (e.g. JavaScript) to provide an "application-like" experience within a Web browser. Web applications are distinct from simple Web content (the focus of BP1) in that they include locally executable elements of interactivity and persistent state. Description of Service Worker (offline use) (TL;DR) - I didn't find it helpful. https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/#motivations To my surprise, I found that WCAG does not have a normative definition of web content. It has: Web page: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#webpagedef a non-embedded resource obtained from a single URI using HTTP plus any other resources that are used in the rendering or intended to be rendered together with it by a user agent (plus Notes) technology (Web content) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#technologydef mechanism for encoding instructions to be rendered, played or executed by user agents If anyone more familiar with WCAG knows where a definition of web content is, please let me know. I have asked among my friends in other parts of W3C if they know of a more modern definition of web content, but so far, no one has been able refer me to a definition. Mike Smith (of HTML5 WG) suggested: Web content is content that's available on the Web (at a URL) that native apps can embed webviews that can fetch web content from URLs and display it in the app. The grammar needs some work, but its a pretty good overview of the concepts we need.
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