On 1 Jun 2009, at 20:44, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> > wrote: > 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). > > Great, so no need for us to put in any tickets or anything? Is there > somewhere I can make a note of where these specific books are, they > would make a great test case.
Well, slightly off topic – but also on – I'd point you to ticket: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/840 Goal is, I think, to come-up with some agreed on set of items for an otherwise fresh Journal and add them in a well tagged, titled, described, meta-data way to kick-start folks going to the ways of the Journal (with actually useful content), eg. go to Journal type Berlin in search and see a couple of entries that are world maps showing Berlin somewhere (I have this now easy), perhaps one is an actual FLOSS street map of Berlin, Germany; and a couple of ebooks written by authors in or about Berlin. And then, more on topic, I'd go for: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Roadmap/0.86#Browse Regards, --Gary > --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 > > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > carol...@solutiongrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep