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It's a bit chicken-and-egg, really. If nobody uses them, nobody else will ever bother looking for them - but conversely, if nobody's looking for them, nobody'll
by eponeponepon 12y ago
It's a bit chicken-and-egg, really. If nobody uses them, nobody else will ever bother looking for them - but conversely, if nobody's looking for them, nobody'll use them. Someone has to make the first move.
There's some traction in academic publishing - aside in particular has some utility for popup/inline footnoting in some EPUB platforms, and some of the other new HTML5 elements are finding a place in online journal presentations, marking up formal abstracts and so on. There's nothing terribly clever going on yet though, as far as I'm aware, and anything that is will be very much platform or publisher-specific.
- coldtea 12y ago>It's a bit chicken-and-egg, really. If nobody uses them, nobody else will ever bother looking for them - but conversely, if nobody's looking for them, nobody'll use them. Someone has to make the first move. Except if you know, the universe doesn't work this way, and people and entropy will abuse and misuse any such system on a web scale, just like Cory Doctorow suggests.