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What's in HTML5 for Publishers?

Philippe Le Hegaret (W3C)
2:30pm Wednesday, 02/16/2011
General Metropolitan East
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HTML, the hypertext language of the Web, did not have significant evolution in the past decade. It has however found its way in many applications and context, from television to electronic books. EPUB, a e-book standard done by the International Digital Puyblishing Forum (IDPF), has been using XHTML 1.1 to construct the content of a book as of version 2.0. Going from a document published on the Web to a document viewable in ebook readers has never been so easy since it’s becoming a matter of simple transfortmation.

The new version of HTML, called HTML5, adds several new functionalities that are relevant to the publishing world. Headers, footers, figure captions, article, or section are being introduced to facilitate the management of documents published on the Web and are directly applicable to the publishing industry. SVG, the scalable vector graphic language, or MathML, the mathematical language, are also fully part of the new HTML platform and useable in non-dynamic environment. WOFF, the new open font format for the Web, will also be introduced.

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Philippe Le Hegaret

W3C

Philippe Le Hegaret heads the W3C Interaction Domain.

He oversees the development of technologies that shape the Web’s user interface, including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, and Web APIs. In addition to his focus on developing W3C’s open web platform standards, he oversees standards work in SMIL, MathML, Internationalization, Video on the Web and XForms.

Until July 2008, Philippe lead the W3C Architecture Domain, which produced the W3C Core technologies in the area of XML, Web Services, and Internationalization. He is a former Chair of the Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group.

Prior to joining W3C, Philippe promoted the use of XML inside Bull in 1998, where he also received the Bull R&D XML award for his work focusing on the interaction between XML and object structures. He wrote the first version of the CSS validator in 1997.

Philippe holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nice (France).

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Howard Cornett
02/16/2011 3:10pm EST

The workshop on Monday was better and gave more information and examples. That said, there was a lot of great information here if you weren’t able to get to the workshop

  • Ingram Content Group
  • Qualcomm
  • codeMantra
  • COPIA
  • Impelsys Inc.
  • Aptara
  • Bowker
  • Connotate
  • HP
  • Jouve North America
  • LibreDigital
  • Malloy
  • MarkLogic
  • Random House, Inc.
  • SPi Global
  • Sterling Commerce
  • Baker & Taylor
  • The BookMasters Group
  • Constellation
  • Jacquette Consulting
  • Mashery
  • Silverchair
  • Wolfram
  • Smashwords, Inc.

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