Samuel Klein wrote: > We need a real text/book/image reader on the XO,
By "real", do you mean http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Book_reader_feature_set , or are there other requirements/wishes? I would be interested in reading them and figuring out what it takes to bring the features to Browse -- I'm confident they've been done as Firefox extensions. Nearly everything in that Book_reader_feature_set is in Browse except "Annotations, preferably sharable via network"; do any of the other book readers support annotations? > one that can read a > variety of formats including html, and that can work with archives of > compressed works laptop.org pages say compression is important, then they note JFFS2 does compression. So does compression matter or is it the filesystem's job? Just like Firefox, Browse handles gzipped content, but only if it negotiates content encoding with a separate web server. > (like wikibrowse). WikiBrowse is indeed really cool. Is it a separate web server that responds to URL requests from Browse (or other programs) by handing back pages? It or another simple web server could do the aforementioned "You asked for bigpage.html, here's bigpage.html.gz". Is your use case * G1G1 users expecting their XO to be an eBook reader like the Kindle or Sony * or country deployments trying to make textbooks available for the XO ? Seems the latter is best met by converting materials to HTML then providing them as collections. Thanks for any elucidation you can provide, -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
