So we've been talking about "the" ebook reader, and how it might work. For reading HTML or things that would be converted into HTML (e.g., Crossmark), the browser seems like an obvious basis for a reader. There's not a huge number of basic features that aren't in the browser currently. So we're thinking about how we might add these extra features.
I've been reading the list of methods as described here: http://www.pygtk.org/pygtkmozembed/class-gtkmozembed.html and there's not a lot of methods. Changing buttons, maybe allowing you to switch modes, all seems pretty reasonable -- the code at least all looks simple enough. But some of what we want to do involves getting at the document object. As an example, if you get to the bottom of a document, and the document has a <link rel="next"> tag, then a page-down from there should take you to the linked page. Then you can flow through a linear but multi-page document fairly seamlessly (assuming it's been marked up nicely). There's a variety of things we'd like to do, including injecting the Javascript to implement the ubiquitous annotation. Is the current browser activity -- and more specifically pygtkmozembed -- the right basis for this kind of work? In the short term, are there ways we can start adding these features (even if the implementation may have to be discarded later)? Looking at details, we were thinking that maybe browser.append_data() could be used to inject at least a little Javascript. I tried adding this to WebActivity.__init__: self._browser.connect('notify::net-stop', self._doc_loaded_cb) Then: def self._doc_loaded_cb(self, embed, *args): data = '<script>alert("hey!")</script>' embed.append_data(StringIO(data), len(data)) But I couldn't get the signal to fire at all; I couldn't get any signals to work except notify::title. Maybe there's something magic that I don't understand here. Anyway, that might give me a crude way to hack on stuff. Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
