The launch of the iPad and iBooks and the tremendous stream of one-off demos reimagining publishing have made it extremely difficult to understand what technologies for enriched content are available to publishers today. In particular, I’ve seen a lot of confusion about what HTML5 might actually mean and what specific opportunities it might bring for [...]
My attention was caught by this quote from Clay Shirky on the excellent ReadWriteWeb blog:
Back in 1974, when the Internet was a fraction of what it is now, the acorn to an oak, there were really only two applications,” said Shirky, “Telnet, and FTP.”
Surely he’s wrong, I thought. Those protocols aren’t that old.
But I was [...]
The last set of Gutenberg HTML books that were planned for demonstration on threepress have been added. As usual, data-loading took more time and uncovered up more problems than expected, which is always a reason to add as many samples as possible. This set includes one non-fiction book (On the Origin of Species) and one [...]
Two books that should’ve been in the initial release were added today: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe.
Tale was challenging because of the way the “books” were organized (they’re called parts in threepress). This book exposed a bug in the way I was handling [...]