Re: PROPOSAL: scope of Web Publications spec should be minimized

This is why we agreed on the last call to start with the use cases from the UCR document, looking at each to determine which are WP vs. PWP and then which require a manifest.

Leonard

On 6/27/17, 12:46 AM, "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote:

    Le 26/06/2017 à 17:39, Bill McCoy a écrit :
    
    > I believe that the core gap in OWP that WP needs to fill is the lack of
    > any definition of a multi-resource ordered collection of related content
    > (aka publication). 
    
    The words above are already a source of disagreement because many see it
    as a "MANIFESTED multi-resource ordered collection of related content".
    I have myself published an online book in the form of several html
    documents and a toc. All in all, it's a folder, a navigation document
    (but the browser also offers a folder view I could have used), a
    dozen of plain html files, a stylesheet and a folder of images. No
    manifest, no metadata, and still it's a "publication" in the pure
    dictionary's sense of the term. From my POV, a web folder with a top
    URL is a publication. A single document on the Web is a publication.
    A web site is a publication. An EPUB is a publication. The only
    difference between an EPUB and the others is that we don't have (yet)
    the mechanism allowing to recursively crawl the dependent URIs from the
    uncompressed package's URI. If all of these are publications, maybe we
    don't need to define "publication" and we only need to specify what
    happens if the top URI targets a resource of a given kind.
    
    Finally, again from my point of view but with my BlueGriffon EPUB
    editor's hat on, anything that makes us diverge even super-lightly from
    the front-end Web (for instance requiring a JSON manifest) is a
    strategic mistake and will make browser vendors flee away. The OWP has
    everything we need to put metadata into html, svg or generic xml
    instances; we don't need extra stuff.
    
    </Daniel>

Received on Tuesday, 27 June 2017 13:05:21 UTC