Re: Increasing the gap between web and publishing or unifying them?

I created another (non-exhaustive) list: EPUB features
hampering unification with OWP.


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mrFNnGUDDSjTHkTlvSBtC2DMGSYGZA5THkDVE31UHE8/edit#heading=h.9i4o28k4goyb

2017-06-08 9:49 GMT+09:00 MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> The whole point of the unification of IDPF and W3C is to
> unify the web world and the publishing world.  But I am wondering
> if we are rather increasing the gap between the two worlds.
>
> See
>
> https://github.com/w3c/publ-cg/issues/11
>
> I think that we should not
>
> 1) Create an EPUB-specific CSS extension
> 2) Introduce more FXL metadata
>
> People appear to agree that 1) is bad.  But I think that
> 2) is also equally bad.  Remember that some FXL
> metadata  (e.g, rendition:align-x-center) has not been
> widely implemented.  Even when they are implemented
> in EPUB, the OWP does not have equivalent features.
>
> I would like to recommend two actions.
>
> First, we  should provide a detailed prioritized requirement list
> and request the CSS WG to address them. Paged media should
> be top in the list.  A recent submission [1] by Vivliostyle is hopefully
> useful.
>
> Second, we should study EPUB features (e.g., media overlay)
> missing in OWP, and request the entire W3C to address them.
> See my list [2] of such features.
>
> Regards,
> Makoto
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/Submission/2017/01/
> [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MY_qIkT8AD6m-
> M4mEUy7dr3jTH56Eiafdj6E2X6FsIQ/edit
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Makoto