[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[peter]

Heck, Fim Fiction allows you to download as Text, HTML, or Epub, all with a 
handy icon right before the chapter with no need to actually open it up.  Or 
you can read it right on site, which supports all sorts of gimmicks in the 
story in regards to color and formats.

An Epub formate in this day and age of E-readers seems like a pretty good 
idea, not that I've taken advantage of it yet.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mythril Moth
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:52 PM
To: The Fanfiction Mailing List
Subject: Re: [FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

> There may be a compromise, though.  It would be fairly trivial to make
> a widget somewhere you could dump your html into and get that code out
> ... it's just sed.  Probably even on a web interface.  All other
> unsupported tags could be stripped out, and then there you go -- you
> get to write in html, and it still outputs into something everyone can
> read.

Doesn't even need to be that complicated. Just have the site's native tag
system be BBCode. It'll mean the user has to global S&R their hypothetical
pre-existing HTML tags to BB tags, but that's a relatively simple task.

On a related note: I know I keep pointing at FiMF.net as a reference for
things, but that's only because the site does a LOT of things right:

On FiMF, there are three options for story views. You can view using the
site's native interface, you can download stories in plain text format, and
you can download stories in HTML format. The on-the-fly conversion code
usually works very nicely, although it lacks a convention for converting
formatting to text because it doesn't strip BBCode style tags down to
old-style TXT equivalents. I don't see any reason this can't be done,
however, for those who are plain-text-only sticklers.


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