On 10/03/2014 10:25 AM, Diogo FC Patrao wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
One problem with allowing HTML submission is ensuring that reviewers can
correctly view the submission as the authors intended it to be viewed.
How would you feel if your paper was rejected because one of the reviewers
could not view portions of it? At least with PDF there is a reasonably
good chance that every paper can be correctly viewed by all its reviewers,
even if they have to print it out. I don't think that the same claim can
be made for HTML-based systems.
The majority of journals I'm familiar with mandates a certain format for
submission: font size, figure format, etc. So, in a HTML format submission,
there should be rules as well, a standard CSS and the right elements and
classes. Not different from getting a word(c) or latex template.
This might help. However, someone has to do this, and ensure that the result
is generally viewable.
Web conference vitally use the web in their reviewing and publishing
processes. Doesn't that show their allegiance to the web? Would the use
of HTML make a conference more webby?
As someone said, this is leading by example.
Yes, but what makes HTML better for being webby than PDF?
dfcp
peter
