[CREATE] What is a "swatch" ?

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:47 -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> I'll point out, for what it's worth, that the W3C is currently  
> working on a standard for "ZIP-based packaging" so as to sort out the  
> variants between the way that OCF, OOXML/XPS, and OEBPS all use ZIP  
> for this purpose.
> 
> It may be worth this group becoming involved in that process or at  
> least following it so as to leverage the same standardization...
> 
> Leonard

Sure, what is the list and effort called? Any URLs?


> On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > And in fact I don't really see a need for a specification, nor  
> > limiting the
> > type of files in the archive. But having a mime-type that the various
> > application could recognize as a "swatch" (aka a "ressource  
> > archive"), and
> > then they would just load the ressource they can load, and ignore  
> > the others.

Cyrille, I'm for the lowest barrier and easiest to implement
solution...sounds like #2...any other opinions?

Jon

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