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...
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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...
ePub package.opf generator
This is the first pass at a script to generate a basic package.opf file for epub3 ebooks using Python 2.X. What it does # When you run it from the root of your ebook, the script will create a...
Using media queries to handle HDPI screens
One of the things that I find infuriating about multi device development is that people can't seem to agree on a resolution or a device aspect ratio. This has become even more complicated with the...
Exclusions
I'm sad to see the potential of exclusions not being used. No browser vendor supports the complete exclusion specification. IE 10+ is the one that comes the closes but doesn't support the full set of...