On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:21:35AM -0500, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Michael S. Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote:
We have put up some experimental pages where you should be able to try anything you want. . .GO FOR IT!!!
The tool I created was a simple wrapper around the existing etexts, which reflows/reformats the existing HTML version of the work, for display on the lowest-common-denominator device; a browser.
If you're all talking about taking the existing site's landing pages and making them appropriate for browsing on the Kindle/Iliad/etc., and having the standard landing page links work appropriately for each device (also very doable), then I'll need to mirror the content that drives those landing pages. I don't have access to that from my local mirror of the PG archive itself.
This is what I've been talking about. I understand what you're asking for, but it doesn't need to be that hard. Some good examples of what the landing pages would look like (with standard HTML, style sheets, .htaccess, or other aspects), with static files, would be great. I suggest this approach because: - The back end at gutenberg.org is not easily portable. - Building your own interactive back end, using the catalog RDF/XML file is not necessary for the landing page purpose
I'm happy to clean that up and help make something work for those other devices, using the existing landing page paradigm, but that's not what I thought we were originally talking about. I thought we wanted to add additional links ON those landing pages, that would be appropriate for use on non-desktop browsing clients.
This is a related goal, so don't hesitate to offer further examples & ideas. Ultimately, we'd like as much of the content on gutenberg.org (including the collection, wiki pages, and eBook catalog landing pages) to work on a much wider variety of devices. This can include automated conversion of the eBook files (which is already in place, and additional converters are fairly easy to use). Since we already have some reasonable converts in place, my current interest is in making the surrounding files (i.e., the Web site, not the eBooks) friendlier. -- Greg