Re: definition of Web Publication

+1 to what Hadrian said and +1 Romain’s earlier point.

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- Baldur Bjarnason
  baldur@rebus.foundation



> On 27 Jul 2017, at 11:59, Hadrien Gardeur <hadrien.gardeur@feedbooks.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> That's exactly what I'd like to discuss, and I agree with that statement.
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> 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).

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