, 04/08/2008 16:03
Dopo la tre giorni di face 2 face a Redmond, il gruppo di lavoro W3C ha predisposto una nuova bozza di lavoro delle ATAG 2.0. Tra le novità, una nuova definizione di "authoring tool", molto più estesa della precedente:
Va chiarito che questa definizione non è ancora definitiva... abbiamo ancora molto su cui lavorare per riuscire ad integrare nelle ATAG qualsiasi applicazione in grado di pubblicare contenuti per il Web.ATAG 2.0 defines an authoring tool as any application, part of an application, or collection of applications that authors interact with to create, modify or assemble Web content to be used by other people.
These guidelines apply to the functions of the authoring tool that present authoring choices to the author or makes choices on behalf of the author. These guidelines do not apply to when the author has no editorial control.
The definition applies to all or part of the following types of applications:
- WYSIWYG editors, plain text editors (embedded and stand-alone)
- conversion tools, software that can output Web content technologies (e.g., "Save as HTML")
- blogging tools, wikis, online forums, emailers that produce Web-content
- multimedia authoring tools
- scripting tools, widget development environment
- content management systems, courseware tools, content aggregators
- site management tools
- etc.
Note 1: Synchronous tools (e.g., chats, collaboration tools, whiteboards, etc.), especially those that archive as Web content, are considered authoring tools and can be made more accessible for both participants and users of the stored archives. While not all parts of ATAG 2.0 will usefully apply, some techniques for real-time content production are available.
Note 2: Guidelines in this document that require the ability of authors to modify content in some way always assume that the author has editorial control.
