Jon Noring wrote:
The OpenReader System 1.0, should it become a reality (and we are working on it -- we've made great strides in the last few weeks in garnering fairly high-level support), intends to fully support the more important parts of the XLink specification in version 1.0. We may also add one or more custom CSS values to 'display' to emulate links/ anchors, objects/images and inline notes (OpenReader will include a facility to open 'booklets' to display non-inline content, in part to support OEBPS which enables this cool ebook feature.) We also plan to investigate a future version of OpenReader to *natively* support TEI-Lite or some subset of TEI (including handling inline notes which will be trivial for OpenReader to handle.) We may even develop a next-generation styling language to address the deficiencies of current CSS2 and CSS3 but which doesn't have the complexity of XSLT/XSL-FO. The problem with CSS is its ties to the HTML paradigm and legacy support. In OpenReader, we are freeing ourselves from these legacy issues and thus can think outside the box and move on to the next generation web browser -- in essence to go beyond HTML.
May I ask how many people are working on this and what the time frame may be? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org