i put the first draft of our collaborative project up:
>   http://76.74.254.239/~bowerbird/a.fcgi

i'm using the beta-version of an upcoming compiler,
so this should work on safari, it might work on chrome
and firefox, and it might not work on internet explorer.
and it definitely won't work on opera; sorry about that.

when you first enter the site/app, it should look like this:
>   http://76.74.254.239/~bowerbird/a-screenshot.png

if you don't see the field on the right half of the screen,
try resizing your window to see if that makes it appear...

the performance is somewhat sluggish at times.  sorry.

what we have here is the book "the jungle" by sinclair...
the z.m.l. version is loaded into the left side, a text-field.
the right side displays a crude .html rendering of the text.

the book is displayed one section (i.e., chapter) at a time...

the popup menu contains a list of the sections in the book,
and you can jump to a section by selecting it in the popup.

or you can step through the sections via the arrow buttons.

as the text for each section is displayed, a rough version of
the .html for that text is created on the fly, and displayed...

the "save" button lets you save a copy of the book's text.
type a 5-letter name (all-lowercase) in the box next to the
"save" button first, to specify the name to use for the file...

the text is editable.  so go ahead and feel free to change it,
for one or more chapters.  hit "save" after making changes
to _any_ chapter (each and every chapter), or else your edits
will be lost.  when you return to a chapter you have edited,
you will see that the changes you made are being displayed.

in most circumstances, the field to the right of "save" button
is the _search-field.  enter a search-term into the field and
press [return] and you'll be taken to the next section which
contains that search-term.  (if the search-routine hits the
last section without finding the search-term, it will wrap
around to the first section and start searching from there.)
again, sometimes the results can be sluggish, so be patient.

feedback?

-bowerbird