On 13 August 2010 12:23, Tei <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 August 2010 10:27, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> If we applied this web 2.0 principle to Wikibooks and Wikisource, >> we wouldn't need to have pages with previous/next links. We could >> just have smooth, continuous scrolling in one long sequence. Readers >> could still arrive at a given coordinate (chapter or page), but >> continue from there in any direction. >> >> Examples of such user interfaces for books are Google Books and the >> Internet Archive online reader. You can link to page 14 like this: >> http://books.google.com/books?id=Z_ZLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14 >> and then scroll up (to page 13) or down (to page 15). The whole >> book is never in your browser. New pages are AJAX loaded as they >> are needed. > > You are not thinking "web" here. > > The "web" way to solve a problem like easy access to "next page" or > "different chapters" is to have a "next page" link or have all the > chapters as tabs, or something like that. Make the wiki aware of the > structure of a book, and make it render these nextpage link / chapters > tabs. > > Web 2.0 is obsolete now, the future is Web 3.5 ( CSS3, HTML5) (-: >
What you suggest seems already implemented in some browsers: http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html#reader It create a distraction free enviroment to read and only read. Much like a ebook reader on your comp! :-) -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
