I tried it with Chrome and couldn't get the text box to let me edit. It worked fine in Firefox, except that I didn't find a way to save the work, aside from asking for another page and then saying yes when it asked if I wanted to save. Also, it insisted on indenting the line at the top of the page, even when it wasn't the beginning of the paragraph.

I, too, find a horizontal interface works better for me.

JulietS

On 3/16/2010 3:39 PM, Jon Ingram wrote:
Interesting, and it's good to see someone using a rich text editor for the text, rather than expecting proofers to mess around with <i>, etc.

I'm not sure how the page was supposed to look, however --

- I'm using a widescreen 1680x1050 monitor, and there was still material off the bottom of the page. This is using Google Chrome.

- I couldn't see any way to resize the image, so as to see the page width rather than the zoomed in image, which gives me about 4 words before I have to scroll to the right

- I couldn't see any way to change the font in the text window, preferably to dpcustommono, which is ugly, but is the best font I've yet used for proofing.

- It would be nice to have some instructions. What exactly are you expecting me to do to the page? Do you want headers/footers/page numbers to be kept? Do you want end of line hyphens kept? Do you want paragraphs joined? 

- It would be nice to have (the option of) a horizontal rather than vertical layout. I used to really like the vertical layout, but found I was more accurate at proofing with a horizontal one.

- I really prefer block paragraphs rather than indented ones for computer-based text.

A very good implementation so far -- I'll await developments. 

On 16 March 2010 14:58, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
Inspired by Mr. Frank, Mr. Adcock, Ms. Miske and Mr. Morasch, I decided to try to implement my own vision of a co-operative proofreading process. Anyone wanting to watch me flail about can follow my work at www.ebookcooperative.com. Login as guest, no password.

Apparently the engineers at Microsoft have not yet figured out how to implement CSS percentages, and I haven't had the time (or inclination) to build an Internet Explorer-aware implementation yet, so visitors would be advised to use a different browser.
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