General ⇒ LaTeX vs. HTML5

[verbunk]

Hey Guys,

So HTML5 is pretty hot. Apple has released a demo page on the different advancements for media support etc ( http://www.apple.com/html5/ ) and it looks great. This is exactly what I've been looking for in a way. PDF's are a pretty good method of sharing information ... but only text and static pictures so far.
That being said does anyone know of any projects that would allow me to either embed some (opensource friendly) media using LaTeX? OR how about a XeTeX to HTML5 converter? Optimally I would like to have a 'rigid document' as the output and not something that is subject to the rendering idiosyncrasies of different web browsers.
My inspiration for future documents is the Alice eBook that was just released for the iPad ( http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/alice-eb ... y-amazing/ ) but that's an html5 only endeavor at the moment.

-J

[frabjous]

I don't know what gives you the idea that PDF only allows text and static pictures. A lot of people use interactive forms in their PDFs, and do quite a lot of other things too.

It's been possible to embed multimedia objects in LaTeX-generated documents for quite some time. Take a look for example, at the movie15 package.

No doubt HTML5 audio/video tags will be supported in tex4ht/htlatex conversions at some point.

And while I don't really think it's relevant here, may I add that Apple's own support of HTML5 in Safari is very poor and badly done, in my opinion, and that it may take awhile before the web is really ready for HTML5.

[verbunk]

I've tried movie15 before. Not once could I get to work. Now that I've moved to XeTeX there is no chance of that happening.