Sillybean
Web Standards for E-books
Web Standards for E-books — Joe Clark is always worth reading, but in this article he’s tackling the intersection of my two professions. Excellent stuff.
Posted on March 9, 2010 at 12:48 pm in Elsewhere · 1 comment
Sharing this post? The short URL is: http://sillybean.net/?p=2803
One Response to “Web Standards for E-books”
Leave a Reply
- About
- Work
- Code
- WordPress Plugins
- Convert Post Types
- Delicious XML Importer
- Edit All Options
- Gallery2 Importer
- HTML Import 2
- LiveJournal Crossposter
- Unreleased Plugins
- Content Audit
- Dashboard Notepad
- Private Suite
- Next Page
- Post Signature
- Post and Page Excerpt Widgets
- Recent Posts with Excerpts
- Random Posts from Category
- No Place Like Home
- Assign Missing Categories
- Mass Format Conversion
- Comment Author Checklist
- WordPress Themes
- WordPress Plugins
- Books
- Writing and Publishing 101
WordPress Book
Beginning WordPress 3
Table of Contents
What You'll Learn
Who This Book is For
Letter from the Author
What's Changed Since 3.0
Sample chapter:
Working with Content (PDF)
Reviews: WPBeginner.com, WordPress Asylum, College Web Editor
Buy from...
Amazon ·
Barnes & Noble ·
Apress
ebook formats...
Kindle ·
Nook ·
PDF
Other languages...
Portuguese
Tweets
- @siiimple I might have some time coming up. What do you need? 50 mins ago
- @jobourne @McVane Baen does. Alas, it's the consistent look of a crack-addled five-year-old with Photoshop filters for crayons. 2 hrs ago
- @pablod @jane_l Thank you. I just inhaled my soda. 9 hrs ago
- Hilarious. RT @courtneymilan: New post: A letter to the DOJ http://t.co/IVSS5mVI 9 hrs ago
- Here's a roundup of the new info @jane_l found in the DOJ/Apple/publishing filings. http://t.co/fibszLT5 9 hrs ago
- Stealth nap ambushed me. I guess I needed it -- didn't sleep well last night -- but oh damn, I did not have time for that today. 10 hrs ago
- Neat! RT @jeremiahtolbert: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson http://t.co/bYCxfMcc #2312 (built by myself and designed by @pablod) 13 hrs ago
- @jeremiahtolbert oh, that's pretty! 13 hrs ago
- @deirdresm am surprised we haven't had Ocelot yet, because that's just fun to say. 19 hrs ago
- I'll stop RTing, but @jane_l has more from the DOJ papers. 19 hrs ago
- @jane_l oh, FFS. I know publishing is a small world and all, but COME ON. 19 hrs ago
- @jane_l Wow. Yes, I was not sure DOJ could win its case on price alone, but with windowing thrown in? Holy shit. 19 hrs ago
- Paging @awamiba! RT @justinromack: And - new Sixpence on the way? Day. Mae. http://t.co/Bg1SmORy 1 day ago
- A good sign, when I open up a novel's file and a forgotten bit makes me grin. #amwriting 1 day ago
- We occasionally get a real word mixed in with the baby babble. So far: hi, hey, oh yeah, goo, haiku. All accidental, I'm sure, but fun. 1 day ago
- More updates...
Reading the article, what I get is:
HTML5/XHTML will win for ebook formats
It’s not yet at the point where it can handle formatting as well as PDF
The ability to handle weird edge casey stuff requires CSS extensions that don’t yet exist and are (probably) years from approval.
It would be best if authors wrote in HTML, when honestly I wasn’t even able to get web content providers to write in decent HTML.
In short… I don’t understand why PDF, generated from whatever electronic source the author prefers, wouldn’t be a better format than HTML5.
I’m just a disagreeable curmudgeon, I guess Shrug