Why not make a demo? I think this idea has come up a couple of times here in the last year. People find it easy to argue about mere proposals but an actual demo gives people a vision of what you are going for. Just look at what's happened with WYSIWYG just in the last week.
OpenLayers seems like a good place to start although it's obviously more designed for maps. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers On 8/13/10 11:36 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > On 08/13/2010 07:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> I have doubts about whether this is the right approach for books. >> Offering the book as plain HTML pages, one for each chapter and also >> one for the whole book (for printing and searching), seems more >> useful. Browsers can cope with such long pages just fine, > > One web page per chapter, yes, but not for whole books, > especially not for the thicker and larger books. > Web pages beyond 100 kbytes still load slowly, especially > when you're on a wireless network in a crowded conference > room. The problem is, after you scan a book you only > know where the physical pages begin and end. The chapter > boundaries can only be detected by manual proofreading > and markup. The sequence from beginning to end of the > book is the same for both pages and chapters (except for > complicated cases with footnotes, as discussed recently). > A smooth web 2.0, map-style scrolling through that sequence > can be a way to overcome the delay between fast mechanical > scanning and slow manual proofreading. > > -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
