Comments for San Bei Ji

Comment on Maui vacation, gluten-free by John

John — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:57:07 +0000

Awesome blog. My daughter has Celiac and we are going to Maui. Will check out a couple of the places you mention. Mahalo! -John

Comment on Quick tip for using TextMate with Confluence by Mike

Mike — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:18:36 +0000

Thanks for this tip! Company where I work for has switched to Confluence from DokuWiki and I’ve been missing editing my wiki markup in TextMate.

Comment on SVG and MathML in HTML5 by Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:03:50 +0000

WebKit browsers have partial support for SVG effects in HTML, although core SVG should work fine. Sorry for using an experimental example – I’ll throw in something more standard tomorrow.

Current state of browser support:

http://caniuse.com/#search=svg
http://caniuse.com/#search=mathml

Comment on SVG and MathML in HTML5 by Neil

Neil — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:30:07 +0000

Works in IE and FF but not Chrome currently. Seems to require xhtml for Chrome which isn’t an option if you are using html5 doctype. What would be the solution than? Use canvas tag?

Comment on Mobile Web by Mike Bavister

Mike Bavister — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:21:14 +0000

I really enjoyed your presentation at OWC3. Would you be willing to share the CSS and HTML you showed us?

Thanks, Mike.

Comment on Maui vacation, gluten-free by Luka Bibic

Luka Bibic — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:21:16 +0000

Dear Sir,

I was looking for G.A.Capuzzi Concerto in G Major (transcribed) for doublebass & piano and your blog confused me…
I’m doublebass player and I have celiac condition. And WOW you are keeping this blog since May 2002.
It would be most kind if you find a bit of time for this ‘comment’ and sen me an email, perhaps?

Best regards,

Luka

Comment on Should academic paper publishing embrace EPUB? by Joe

Joe — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:56:10 +0000

It’s not a mistake – ePub is a better solution than PDF for reading papers that works now in mobile devices. Client instances solve my needs. Yes it would be great to have that be independently supported by the spec for annotations and such, but the fact of the matter is that the reading experience is vastly improved on these devices by using a common ePub format over PDF, and the client tools get the job done. Adding capability with a protocol that extends ePub to support those good features you mention is a fine idea, but in danger of adoption scarcity. Will that ship in readers? Will authors support it? Until then: ePub works.

Comment on Should academic paper publishing embrace EPUB? by ianf

ianf — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:45:35 +0000

While you’re of course right in condemning use of PDF for screen-reading purposes, you are making a common mistake of evaluating current EPUB format in terms of some client instances (e.g. iBooks and Stanza), and then promoting it as a solution for said duties. It is clear that what is needed for academic digital papers/ textbooks of all kinds, is some derivative XML-document scheme, which includes, but does not end with, the EPUB. Besides being capable of adapting itself to all kinds and sizes of screen displays (in single- and multicolumn layout styles), that future format will also have to intelligently accomodate the three kinds of textbook “extras”: highlighting, quotes, and cumulative annotations (in-context and margin-notes). Furthermore, the annotations layer needs to be stored with the document and suitable for device-independent export and merging with other annotation instances. EPUB 3.0 is nowhere near that capability, alas.

For more on the lack of a native/global annotations layer on the iPad, the lodestar of lean-back screen-reading, see these two of my earlier notes elsewhere:

http://ipad4edu.com/questions/161/ipad-and-etextbooks-and-annotations/310#310
http://ipad4edu.com/questions/161/ipad-and-etextbooks-and-annotations/190#190

BTW. You don’t need to apologize for Adobe’s PDF not being suitable for screen-reading duties – it wasn’t designed primarily for that.