A somewhat related issue is using a Wiki to prepare contents for a book. I believe that there is lot of future in this since writing is more difficult than formatting, and using a wiki helps to organize ideas and collaborative work (testing it right now).
Now, for MediaWikis there is a sort of procedure. The German Wikipedia community seems to have the best experience so far and some reader really have been published in paper form.
I also am very much afraid that Adobe will drop SVG support. It has been years since there was an official upgrade to the 3.0 plugin. Even 6.0alpha has been around for some time now and I guess it will take time before we will see a full native SVG implementation in Moz/Firefox:(
(1) While I agree with some posters that there is a danger of distributing unfinishend implementations, having a NATIVE SVG is a real breakthrough though. Quote: "Mozilla can handle documents that contain SVG, MathML, XHTML, SMIL, etc. all mixed together in the same 'compound' document.... ". Means for instance that you can simply add a little vector graphic INTO your XHTML code instead of importing png. Also means that the same DOM/Ecma interface can be used to program dynamic websites, or that you can dynamically transform XML contents into XHTML/SVG with XSLT client-side on the fly...
(2) On another note: Adobe's Plug-in version 6.0 BETA is available. And it does not crash Mozilla 1.4 (Win2k) when embedded in HTML. In order to install it with Mozilla (tested with Moz 1.4/Win2k) you must copy the 2 files from: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\SVG Viewer 6.0\Plugins\* to c:\Program Files\Mozilla.org\Mozilla\Plugins\ Did not see any Unix version:(
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A somewhat related issue is using a Wiki to prepare contents for a book. I believe that there is lot of future in this since writing is more difficult than formatting, and using a wiki helps to organize ideas and collaborative work (testing it right now).
./ reader went through the experience making a book from Wiki and could tell us how it went ...
Now, for MediaWikis there is a sort of procedure. The German Wikipedia community seems to have the best experience so far and some reader really have been published in paper form.
WikiReader Handbuch and a Magnus' magic MediaWiki-to-XML-to-stuff converter
Btw there is also the idea that one could some day directly produce PDF from Wiki. A script for print on demand is on source forge .
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I also am very much afraid that Adobe will drop SVG support. It has been years since there was an official upgrade to the 3.0 plugin. Even 6.0alpha has been around for some time now and I guess it will take time before we will see a full native SVG implementation in Moz/Firefox :(
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... (Parisi in Visualizing Information Using SVG and X3D -2 337907/
Why SVG?
(1) http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/comparison_flash_
(2) SVG is about interactive rich media presentations, Flash is about Art
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/185
(1) While I agree with some
:(
...)
posters that there is a danger of distributing unfinishend
implementations, having a NATIVE SVG is a real breakthrough though.
Quote: "Mozilla can handle documents that contain SVG, MathML, XHTML,
SMIL, etc. all mixed together in the same 'compound' document.... ".
Means for instance that you can simply add a little vector graphic INTO
your XHTML code instead of importing png. Also means that the same
DOM/Ecma interface can be used to program dynamic websites, or that you
can dynamically transform XML contents into XHTML/SVG with XSLT
client-side on the fly...
(2) On another note: Adobe's Plug-in version 6.0 BETA is available. And
it does not crash Mozilla 1.4 (Win2k) when embedded in HTML. In order
to install it with Mozilla (tested with Moz 1.4/Win2k) you must copy
the 2 files from:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\SVG Viewer 6.0\Plugins\*
to c:\Program Files\Mozilla.org\Mozilla\Plugins\ Did not see any Unix
version
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html
PS: Plugin v3.0 kills Moz 1.4 (and others if you don't use iframes)
(3) There are some really cool SVG sites. My favorites:
http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/
(cool examples)
http://www.protocol7.com/svg-wiki/
(documentation about obscuret extensions,
i.e. shows how to get/post to URLS from within SVG
- K