On 01/28/2012 02:53 PM, James Simmons wrote:
I agree with this. Granted, an EPUB starts out as an HTML document but to make a good EPUB you really need to do tweaks that cannot be done automatically.
What HTML? HTML 4, HTML 5, HTML 6? What EPUB? EPUB 2, EPUB 3, EPUB 4? This is so WYSIWYG, so pedestrian, so typewriter, so oblivious of the capacities of computers and the rapid change of ereading landscape. This is the complete opposite of having a master format.
I want the option to submit a hand crafted EPUB along with my HTML and TXT. I want it to be my own work, not the efforts of a bunch of people.
This is so 90's, so `me´-generation, so Girl Scout Merit Badge. I want *my* name all over the place, I want *my* bragging rights, I want nobody to mess with my work because I'm the paragon of evolution. This is the complete opposite of crowdsourcing.
Rather than have an HTML file that avoids features of HTML so it can make a decent EPUB, I want to have both HTML and EPUB be the best they can be.
This is so `best viewed with IE4´ and `best viewed with Netscape´. This is the complete opposite of future proof. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org