html5 has so-called "semantic tags", like <header>, <section>.
-- diogo patrão On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > " Yes, but what makes HTML better for being webby than PDF?" > Because it is a mark-up language (albeit largely syntactic) which makes it > much more amenable to machine processing? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 03 October 2014 21:15 > To: Diogo FC Patrao > Cc: Phillip Lord; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access) > > > > 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 > > > >
