Re: [BULK] Information 4.0 Is this a "thing"?

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

The "traditional linear-document format" survives mostly as one of
many delivery formats of topic-based single-sourced docs.

HTML5 is yet another delivery format. I think XHTML has already been
established as the standard HTML-flavor source format for authoring
tools.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Wright, Lynne <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- kronos -dot- com> wrote:
> From what i could tell by a quick skim of the consortium's home page, what's pertinent to tech comm would be the concept of delivering information in distinct little chunks (ie with DITA), rather than the traditional linear-document format.
>
> So in that sense, I'd say that, yes, things seem to be headed in that direction, with people switching to writing content in tools based on HTML5.
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