One more format to construct magazines!
Hi tringers, given our history of working closely with Woodwing and having played a rather important part in development of a few key lego pieces, nothing delights me more than the decision from Woodwing to open source the format that they (along with Time, Inc.) worked hard to conceive and develop. It is a step in the right direction.
We have been working on a similar format – a format that has a lot of buzz around it – HTML5. What I would like to see tringers accomplish is marry ofip with HTML5 and work towards making interactive publications even more pervasive.
Once again, good luck Woodwing!!
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Even though the OFIP specification is structured well, the approach is not agreeable and more like re-inventing the wheel. The specification states that every book/journal is structured as a set of XML files. Instead of making use of existing HTML markups for formatting and display of content, the specification uses new set of tags (reinvention). Most of the current content is based up on HTML, it would be very easy to re-use them rather than creating a new one based on this spec. A specification utilizing HTML 5 will be more appropriate and agreeable, because at the minimum the content can be rendered easily and most of them understands the format well.
A very good initiative by woodwing. They do have an advantage over the publishing industry and they try to take a further leap by open sourcing their stuff. At this point certainly we don’t have a good open publishing formats for tablets. With the race for tablets increasing this year ofip would certainly find more takers.