XML Workflows: Tools and Automation
Because we use XML we can't just dump our code in the browser or the PDF viewer and expect it to appear just like HTML content. We need to prepare our content for conversion to PDF before we can view...
XML workflows: Introduction
One of the biggest limitations of markup languages, in my opinion, is how confining they are. Even large vocabularies like Docbook have limited functionality out of the box. HTML4 is non-extensible...
XML Workflows: CSS Styles for Paged Media
This is the generated CSS from the SCSS style sheets (see the scss/ directory for the source material.) I've chosen to document the resulting stylesheet here and document the SCSS source in another...
XML workflows: Converting our content to HTML
One of the biggest advantages of working with XML is that we can convert the abstract tags into other markups. For the purposes of this project we'll convert the XML created to match the schema we...
XML Wokflows: From XML to PDF: Part 2: CSS
With the HTML ready, we can no look at the CSS stylesheet to process it into PDF. The extensions, pseudo elements and attributes we use are all part of the CSS Paged Media or Generated Content for...
XML Wokflows: From XML to PDF: Part 1: Special Transformation
Rather than having to deal with XSL-FO, another XML based vocabulary to create PDF content, we'll use XSLT to create another HTML file and process it with CSS Paged Media and the companion Generated...
Creating a Github publishing workflow
Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) was an article first published in Wired in February of 2012. It was an interesting article about a company which work I value enough to pay...
Athena: What an ofline web reading experience may look like
With the latest set of web technologies coming down the W3C/WHATWG pipeline it is now possible to create top-of-the-line responsive experiences that can also work as ofline applications. HTML5 web is...
Video in ePub: Captioning, Storage and Other Thoughts
Note: While I talk primarily about ePub e-books, the same process, markup and scripts apply to a standard web page. After finishing a draft of my fixed layout ePub I went back and researched the...
The Trap of CDNs
The problem # There is a tricky issue when working with CDN during development. CDN requires an active Internet connection to actually load the script referenced as the source. If you are not online...