Is HTML5 the “Magic Bullet”? Digital Book World January 14, 2015 Sanders Kleinfeld O’Reilly Media, Inc. Yes!
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Is HTML5 the “Magic Bullet”?
Digital Book World January 14, 2015
Sanders Kleinfeld O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Yes!
Conversion! Conversion!
Conversion!
A Traditional Production Workflow Looks Like This:
Three Standard Production Conversions:
1. Word -> InDesign to do typesetting = �
2. InDesign -> EPUB/MOBI for digital = �
3. InDesign -> Word for next edition = �
How much time/money do these conversions cost your organization?
“…the ultimate goal in creating streamlined publishing workflows
isn’t solely to lower the costs of conversions whenever possible; the aim should also be to eliminate the
need for conversions whenever possible.”
— Sanders Kleinfeld
“The Case for Authoring and Producing Books in XHTML5” Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013 Proceedings
http://bit.ly/1BTGrdH
How we eliminated conversions at
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
We realized HTML + CSS was the common thread for all our outputs
* e.g., AntennaHouse Formatter or Prince!
= HTML + CSS + open source packaging
= HTML + CSS + proprietary packaging
= HTML + CSS + PDF processor*
= HTML + CSS + JS
HTMLBook (github.com/oreillymedia/htmlbook)
We built an open specification for authoring books in HTML5 called:
We built an HTML5 authoring platform:
Atlas (atlas.oreilly.com)
We added CSS template design capabilities to Atlas:
We added one-click publishing to both print and digital outputs:
The Art of Application Performance Testing, Second Edition by Ian Molyneaux (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033233.do)
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