Re: URL maintenance Was: Seeking *opinions* as part of a larger research issue.

On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 16:50 -0500, Eric Hellman wrote:
> 
> A successor format  to EPUB could make this easier by requiring
> javascript support 

or, better, by supporting distribution-channel-mediated links, because
then you could also e.g. link to other books in a series, and have the
reading device not download them again if you already had them, or
offer a purchase opportunity.

Although JavaScript support in ebook readers may offer some interesting
possibilities (i spoke about some of them at Declarative Markup this
year, although not specifically mentioning any one technology such as
JavaScript), it's not necessary in this case.

-- 
Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/
Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/
XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting.
Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations:  http://www.fromoldbooks.org

Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2023 23:30:12 UTC