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 Web 2.0 is obsolete now, the future is  Web 3.5  ( CSS3, HTML5)  (-: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! :-)



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