There you go then: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/book2scroll/index.html
Just one demo book for the moment, but it'll be easy to allow all wikisource books tomorrow, when I have had some sleep... (page jumping is broken too, but scrolling works just fine...) Cheers, Magnus On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
