I'm seriously thinking about porting my epub reader from windows to
linux. Under windows it's a gui application, but in porting it to
linux, I'd actually not mind making it a terminal based app. The parsing
of the content files is relatively easy to do, especially since I
already have that mostly written under windows, and porting that part to
linux wouldn't be a difficult task. The big trouble comes when actually
displaying the files that make up the epub books. most of them are just
plain html files with xhtml extensions.
On windows, I call an explorer embedded task to display the html files,
which gives me control over the explorer window since it's a child
window of my app, and I can easily move from file to file, but I'm not
sure how to do this same kind of thing on linux.
I could of course simply call lynx and pas it the url to the local file
to display, but this would require the user to quit lynx after each
section was done. I'd like instead to be able to incorporate the
relevant pieces of lynx directly into the epub reader, so that I have
full control over when things get displayed, and when to change what's
being shown. Again, this could probably be done with scripting/moderate
modifying of the lynx source, but a full blown web browser isn't
strictly necessary, since on average, the epub standard doesn't
generally go in for most of the existing xhtml extensions, so just
having it handle moderately current html tags should be sufficient. I'm
just curious if anyone has any ideas/suggestions on what specific parts
of lynx would be necessary for this task, since all files will be local,
nothing needs to be pulled from remote servers, simple html parsing
should suffice, and I only need to be able to control the browser so far
as closing and reopeningnew files goes, I'd think I could strip away
quite a lot of lynx's current infrastructure, and just use the html
engine, with some window controls, but I don't know how problematic a
task like this would be, so any help/advice would be appreciated.
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