[LINK] iPad experimentation begins: e-media

[Tom Worthington]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 05/03/2010, at 8:44 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> I expect that someone, perhaps Apple, will propose a multimedia
>> e-book format, using HTML 5 in place of XHTML, with all the media
>> flies zipped ...
> 
> 
> I believe Apple's "iTunes LP" format, released in September last
> year, is the format you might be imagining. While it's marketed as a
> way of adding DVD-like "special features" to downloadable movies and
> album artwork to music, it could well be used for a general
> multimedia publishing format. ...

Might be, but I can't find any document specifying what version of HTML
iTunes LP supports. But being Apple, perhaps that is defined as 
"whatever Safari supports".

ps: When referring to "Zipped" I meant the Zip file format:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)>. That both compresses
individual files and packages them up in one archive file. The
compression works fine for HTML and CSS. I assume it is smart enough not
to try and compress already compresses audio, image and video formats.


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