SRD 3.5 Competition

[Cergorach]

Shouldn't you use the HTML standard as the reference point? Or, failing that, the browser that comes closest to supporting the standards? That's Mozilla/Chimera or Safari, currently, isn't it (don't know for certain since i don't have anything that can run Safari)? What's the W3C's current test-bed browser? Does it run on anything but some obscure flavor of Unix?

First of all which HTML standards? 4.0? W3C?
Maybe Mozilla/Chimera is best supporting 'pure' html, but IE seems to be the most popular (95%+ market share).

 

[The Harvester]

You guys do know about the conversions being done by "The Other Game Company", right? Their links have been up on the EN World front page.

Well, it seems they're having some legal trouble with "Amigo", a german game company that published the translated D&D books, and they've had to take down their pdf SRD "handouts". Doesn't bode well for our own contest, but hopefully it will be resolve soon. I don't see how they could possibly prevent anyone from giving away a free product containing nothing but OGC content.

Amigo is very strict regarding the SRD 3.5.
Although ist is officially out, they delete every thread on their boards which contains a link to the new SRD. IMHO they fear that there are not enough people in germany who will buy their books

 

[Cergorach]

Amigo is very strict regarding the SRD 3.5.
Although ist is officially out, they delete every thread on their boards which contains a link to the new SRD. IMHO they fear that there are not enough people in germany who will buy their books

You know what would be really 'fun', if someone would translate the SRD into german...

 

[kreynolds]

What browser are we going to use as a reference point?

Personally, if I did an HTML version, well...I only support IE6. Nothing else. I'm a snob that way.

 

[Cergorach]

Personally, if I did an HTML version, well...I only support IE6. Nothing else. I'm a snob that way.

Hey Microsofty! MS monkey! Sleeping with the enemy is what it is! ;-) I'll try to make sure that it'll work on IE5.5+ and Mozilla, Opera would be nice, everything else is a bonus...

 

[kreynolds]

Hey Microsofty! MS monkey! Sleeping with the enemy is what it is! ;-)

The fact that IE6 actually works properly is my primary motivation behind this.

I'll try to make sure that it'll work on IE5.5+ and Mozilla, Opera would be nice, everything else is a bonus...

Well, to tell the truth, I do indeed code for 5.0, but I only test with 6.0. AFAIK, I don't actually code anything that's exclusive to version 6 of IE.

 

[Dimwhit]

Shouldn't you use the HTML standard as the reference point? Or, failing that, the browser that comes closest to supporting the standards? That's Mozilla/Chimera or Safari, currently, isn't it (don't know for certain since i don't have anything that can run Safari)? What's the W3C's current test-bed browser? Does it run on anything but some obscure flavor of Unix?

Ah, now you've hit on the major problem with the internet these days. You'd think going with the html standards would be fine, but considering that 95-98% of the world used Internet Explorer (just heard that number a couple days ago), you pretty much have to make sure it's usable in that browser (I'm talking general website development). The fact that Microsoft all but refuses to work with any standard that they haven't created throws a wrench in it. I know Safari is built to use the true web standards, but chances are, IE would screw something up. But the world has been Microsoft'd, so if you want anyone to use it effectively, you have to mess up your code a bit.

Kind of silly, really. Don't even get me started on their WMA format...

 

[CrimsonHawk]

Amigo is very strict regarding the SRD 3.5.
Although ist is officially out, they delete every thread on their boards which contains a link to the new SRD. IMHO they fear that there are not enough people in germany who will buy their books

It's all well and good and the whole nine yards that Amigo is trying to protect its market....

But isn't its market the German translation of WotC published products? Why are they applying legal pressure on an English-language company that's legally producing documents of the SRD for its English-language audience?

I don't understand it. Could someone explain it to me?

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Dale W. Robbins

 

[Enkhidu]

It's all well and good and the whole nine yards that Amigo is trying to protect its market....

But isn't its market the German translation of WotC published products? Why are they applying legal pressure on an English-language company that's legally producing documents of the SRD for its English-language audience?

I don't understand it. Could someone explain it to me?

=====O
Dale W. Robbins

I'm not sure what the laws regarding protecting your market share are in Germany, but in the states, it likely wouldn't hold up. However, by the time the courts finally agreed that it wouldn't hold up, the company producing the SRD would take a big financial hit and all sorts of headaches (because lawyers and court costs are not cheap, and court dates are a pain).

I stand by my earlier prediction: either the cease and desist letter they received from Amigo goes away when they realize they haven't got a leg to stand on, or The Other Game Company is either bought by or paid off by Amigo.

 

[Drawmack]

Ouch! What'd you use? I used r2net (available for Mac, MSWindows, Linux, and a few other platforms--free 30day trial), and, other than gakking on the Feats file (i haven't bothered to figure out why, yet, nor fix it), it did all of them, beautifully and pretty much flawlessly, in 15-30 min, tops (i wasn't exactly timing). In fact, the HTML files turned out much better formatted than the RTFs.

It's called word clean. It's a pretty sweet program actually. I think what took it so long was that it's a word add on. So it probably used word's conversion engine and then cleaned those files instead of doing a direct conversion. I like it because I get a neat little button right inside word so I can publish my word documents to html very easily, but convience always has it's price. Before you ask, I did these rtf's as a batch not each individual one.