Hi Florian, This mailing list is kind-of low-activity. I like your presentation, and (given my experience with javascript), I assume it can be added in quite an unobtrusive way to our ebooks. Still, I think there won't be much enthusiasm on Project Gutenberg, basically because we have tried to make our ebooks independent from active content, for two main reasons, longevity and security. Longevity means that we only work with standards that are extremely well settled, and expected to be still widely understood many years in the future. It took PG many years to even consider HTML, and even today, for this reason Javascript is not allowed. Second, end-user safety is often compromised by things as scripting; to take away any hesitation by potential users that the ebook might harm their device, no active content is allowed. Furthermore, I want to give a third consideration: Although your script looks beautiful, it is fairly slow to load even on my desktop computer; many users are on mobile devices with low-end processors, and thus are probably better served with non-active HTML, or one of the generated alternative ebook formats (such as ePub), although I admit those formats also leave things to be desired in presentation. Nothing in this of course prevents you from building a site that takes all of PG ebooks, and present them in this way. Jeroen. On 2015-12-24 04:30, Florian Rivoal wrote:
Hi,
Not sure I'm writing to the right place, but previous attempts at different addresses didn't work out.
My name is Florian, and I work at http://www.vivliostyle.com