On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote: > Caroline, > > The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small > website for offline reading. > > I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some > discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with offline > websites stored in Zip files.
+1 Yep, this is on the roadmap for 0.86. It would open up using a whole new set of content directly through a well tagged Journal (no need at all for the old .xol format and it's non-standard use of browse to access the information through a custom scripted home page). --Gary > This is actually a more popular format > than you might think. For instance, Project Gutenberg has a bunch of > illustrated books in that format, for instance _The Innocents > Abroad_ by > Mark Twain is one. It is reasonable to assume that some future > version > of Browse will be able to work with Zip files like this one. > > James Simmons > > > Caroline Meeks wrote: >> Hi James, >> >> Here is another interesting source of books. How hard to make a >> reader >> for these? Or would we do something completely different? >> >> http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php >> > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep