Re: Web Publications via HTML Imports

Even better, I have control of the source code for the Pressbooks CMS:
https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks


On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Benjamin Young <byoung@bigbluehat.com>
wrote:

> Hey Hugh,
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> I like the approach of using actual books already published on the Web as
> potential “proof case” examples for various implementations
> options—especially when measured from their current instantiations to
> whatever-it-is-we’re-trying-to-experiment-on. :)
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> I’m guessing that you have access to the source content for that book, so
> you’d be the point person on knowing the distance between it and any
> proposed solution.
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> I’ve been occasionally referencing (in my own off-list…so far…exploration)
> the following openly licensed texts:
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> http://guide.couchdb.org/ (CC BY 3.0)
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> http://eloquentjavascript.net/ (CC BY-NC 3.0)
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> It would be great to have many more such examples—especially of less
> linear, more internally (and externally!) referential texts.
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> Forking some of these existing books and iterating toward what we want,
> might be a helpful path forward and minimize the “meta” weeds we keep
> wandering into. :)
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> Cheers!
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> Benjamin
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> *From:* Hugh McGuire [mailto:hugh@rebus.foundation]
> *Sent:* Friday, July 28, 2017 3:19 PM
> *To:* Garth Conboy <garth@google.com>
> *Cc:* Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>; Laurent Le Meur <
> laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org>; W3C Publishing Working Group <
> public-publ-wg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Web Publications via HTML Imports
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> Dave,
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> Here is a live “Web Publication” awaiting direction from this group on how
> to implement itself correctly to meet a WP specification:
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> https://book.pressbooks.com
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> Would getting the above to do what you have suggested be easy or hard?
> (That is a real question …)
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> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Garth Conboy <garth@google.com> wrote:
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> Very interesting Dave!
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> Doesn't obviate a manifest; maybe points in the "in HTML" direction for
> the rest of the manifest stuff (e.g., list of other resources) [but
> certainly could be linked too], and is a quite possible approach to the
> spine.
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> Best,
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>     Garth
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> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Laurent Le Meur <
> laurent.lemeur@edrlab.org> wrote:
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> - this import mechanism, when supported by a browser, fetches the complete
> set of imported resources. This is not really the need expressed (-> to
> list the resources and enable selective fetch).
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> My little example happened to show fetching all the imports, but it would
> be very easy to fetch a subset, one at a time, etc. It's completely
> controlled by script.
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> Best regards,
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> Dave
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> --
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> Hugh McGuire
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> https://rebus.community
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> +1.514.464.2047 <(514)%20464-2047>
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