Re: definition of Web Publication

>
> AFAICT, the only concrete detail proposed that is relatively unambiguous
> and has technical implications is the idea that a web publication should be
> defined by an self-identified manifest that can be external to the HTML
> files that compose the publication and whose URL identifies the publication
> as a whole. But I’m not sure we have consensus even on that detail.


That's exactly what I'd like to discuss, and I agree with that statement.

I think that so far:

   - "a web publication should be defined by a self-identified manifest",
   pretty much everyone agrees about that
   - "that can be external to the HTML files", most of the list seems to
   agree with that, but I've seen a few voices opposed to this idea
   - "whose URL identifies the publication as a whole", that's where we
   have a pretty massive disagreement as I believe that the URL of the
   manifest is a perfect fit to identify the publication as a whole, but
   others (Dave, Garth for example) want a URL that returns HTML instead (not
   sure why an identifier MUST return HTML, but anyway...)

IMO, this type of bullet point list is more helpful to get a vision of what
we're trying to achieve than the kind of details about definitions being
discussed in this thread (I know that Romain has made that point before,
and I agree with him).

Received on Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:00:20 UTC