[poppler] pdftohtml, separate CSS file

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

I'm glad some things I wrote were useful.

Sincerely,

Marc

On 06/22/2011 11:14 AM, Josh Richardson wrote:
> I was planning to make it HTML5 and XHTML5 compliant (polyglot 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_markup>).  We need some of the 
> HTML5 features, e.g. for text rotation across platforms.  I have 
> implemented text-rotation support btw., just trying to sort some of 
> this formatting stuff out before submitting the patch.
>
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> --josh
>
> From: "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mjd at reanimality.com 
> <mailto:mjd at reanimality.com>>
> Reply-To: "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mjd at reanimality.com 
> <mailto:mjd at reanimality.com>>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:14:23 -0700
> To: "poppler at lists.freedesktop.org 
> <mailto:poppler at lists.freedesktop.org>" <poppler at lists.freedesktop.org 
> <mailto:poppler at lists.freedesktop.org>>
> Subject: Re: [poppler] pdftohtml, separate CSS file
>
> As one with 10+ years with CSS, XHTML1.x and now HTML 5 I have to ask 
> which versions of the XHTML specification you plan on supporting.
>
> I would assume you would target XHTML1.1 Strict and leave the notion 
> of the XHTML 1.1 Modular alone as we've all departed on to HTML 5.
>
> Which brings me to the question, pdftohtml should include output to 
> HTML 5, and since it's on all platforms perhaps one should utilize the 
> WebKit HTML 5 Parser, especially since GTK+ and Qt are all in. GTK+ is 
> even modularizing out their work so to separate the JavaScript engine 
> to be reusable within other GTK+ projects.
>
> From GTK+ Changelog:
>
> 2011-06-20  Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com>
>
>         Reviewed by Xan Lopez.
>
>         [GTK] Split libWebCore into two libWebCore and libWebCoreGtk
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60539
>
>         * GNUmakefile.am: Link to libWebCoreGtk.la too.
>
> ================
> WebKitGTK+ 1.5.1
> ================
>
> What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.5.1?
>
>   - The JSC library is now available independently. It's called
>     "libjavascriptcoregtk", and it comes with its own pkg-config file.
>   - New spellchecking APIs, useful to implement spellchecking features
>     in the UAs.
>   - New DOM methods to check if editable areas have been modified by
>     the user (webkit_dom_html_{input,text_area}_is_edited).
>   - Lots of improvements in the WebKit2GTK+ port.
>   - Lots of bugfixes.
>
> Since XHTML is a good citizen with HTML 5 I'd assume information on 
> the WebKit HTML 5 Parser would be useful for the long haul.
>
> http://www.webkit.org/blog/1273/the-html5-parsing-algorithm/
>
> If I'm off base, just ignore.
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
> Marc J. Driftmeyer
>
>
> On 06/21/2011 07:47 PM, Josh Richardson wrote:
>> Experienced web developers always separate their CSS from their HTML 
>> file  This makes maintenance and overriding of the styling much 
>> easier, as well as keeping the HTML file itself (nearly) completely 
>> content / semantics focused.
>>
>> In the complex mode, I would like to separate out the styling into a 
>> separate CSS file, referenced from the output HTML file.  Any 
>> objections to this?
>>
>> I am also cleaning up the tags so that they are all balanced and 
>> XHTML, hence XML-compliant.  Once this is done along with CSS 
>> separated out, I'm not sure of a need for a separate –xml mode for 
>> pdftohtml.  Thoughts on this?
>>
>> Thanks, --josh
>>
>>
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> Marc J. Driftmeyer
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Marc J. Driftmeyer
Email :: mjd at reanimality.com <mailto:mjd at reanimality.com>
Web :: http://www.reanimality.com
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