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"Nobody seriously intends screenplays on the web to have the same function they do in real life: getting read, getting optioned or bought, and getting shot. All
by shizcakes 17y ago
"Nobody seriously intends screenplays on the web to have the same function they do in real life: getting read, getting optioned or bought, and getting shot. All of that happens on paper, not on Firefox."
Why not? It's pretty straightforward to paginate something or divide it like a physical page. In the case of screenplays, the 'page' was engineered around because it was a physical limitation. The author's example of Final draft and it's default format of XML is exactly what I am talking about - scripting that to be presented in HTML is not difficult.
I feel like this entire article is complaining about HTML and HTML5, while reaching for tenuous examples and not really accomplishing much.
- jsonscripter 17y agoInterestingly, Celtx (http://celtx.com/ http://celtx.com/) is a screenplay editor built out of Firefox.
- TrevorJ 17y agoThe biggest reasons 'why not' aren't technological, they are human. The Hollywood model for submitting scripts is extremely rigid in terms of how they should be formatted, and is built around having a physical copy of the manuscript. There's no real reason online submission can't work, other than the fact that it's not how things work at the moment.