Am 27.02.2011 um 09:34 schrieb don kretz:
I'd say they are not political, they are practical. The technical discussion is entirely moot until the editor problem is solved.
Try as they might, and there's a big pot of gold waiting for the first to succeed, no one has been able to develop an HTML editor that normal people can use. Certainly not one with the sophistication to enable them to use the breadth of markup required to even edit the poor meagre subset of syntactical information (not even chapters) incorporated into the elegant products coming from DP.
Microsoft has failed. Adobe has failed (and they have the only product that has real traction for highly technical users.) Google keeps trying with Google Docs, but that's clearly unsatisfactory.
MS code will generally, not validate! In other words it is non-standard. But, why! Because, they add a lot of fluff which looks nice and makes their editor simple to use. That is not technical, but political! I have not use Adobe for a long time. GoLive use to have a validater at least! Furthermore, you do not use HTML making printed matter! It is not designed for that. So what is NEEDED an EDITOR designed towards editing text for ebooks for the output media and it needs. you do NOT need the full standard. Yet, as long as people think they have to use the full standard to create aesthetically looking Books, the problem is political! regards Keith