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Fw: Re: [gutvol-p] Size/image limit in Web browser?
by Joshua Hutchinson 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Meant to send this to the list as a whole. Forgot to check the reply headers before hitting send. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua(a)hutchinson.net> > > I've never heard of a hard limit. I've seen IE slow to a claw if memory > becomes an issue and at least one some browsers, it won't display the text > properly until all the images have been downloaded. I know recent versions of > Firefox and IE will display hundreds of images in one document, because I've > done it... It loads more slowly, obviously, but it runs. > > Multi-part HTML files are more of a pain in the patoot (you can't search > through the whole document, if you want a copy, you have to keep track of > multiple files, etc). I don't like them and would prefer all one file. > > Josh > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Newby" <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> > To: gutvol-p(a)lists.pglaf.org > Subject: [gutvol-p] Size/image limit in Web browser? > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:40:41 -0800 > > > > > Has anyone heard about the following: > > > > > Let me just address one issue. The reason I organized it the way I did -- > > > into chapters vice a single web page -- was because just before I got > > > started on it I ran across a comment by someone -- I think it was somewhere > > > on the Project Gutenberg site -- that said that some browsers (I think the > > > reference was actually about Windows IE) are limited to no more than > > > something like 90 graphic images on a "page". I think the comment said > > > there was also a MB size limit. So when I saw that I knew I had somewhere > > > in the neighborhood of 300+ images so I'd bust that limit. So although I > > > was aware of your format guidelines I thought it was going to take this > > > project straight into a application crash. So that's why I did what I did. > > > Do you know if this graphics limitation still exists (or if it ever did)? > > > > The message was in response to my request to join a multi-file > > HTML eBook with tons of images (300) into a single file. > > > > Thanks for any info or feedback you might be able to provide. > > -- Greg > > _______________________________________________ > > gutvol-p mailing list > > gutvol-p(a)lists.pglaf.org > > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-p

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Size/image limit in Web browser?
by Greg Newby 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Has anyone heard about the following: > Let me just address one issue. The reason I organized it the way I did -- > into chapters vice a single web page -- was because just before I got > started on it I ran across a comment by someone -- I think it was somewhere > on the Project Gutenberg site -- that said that some browsers (I think the > reference was actually about Windows IE) are limited to no more than > something like 90 graphic images on a "page". I think the comment said > there was also a MB size limit. So when I saw that I knew I had somewhere > in the neighborhood of 300+ images so I'd bust that limit. So although I > was aware of your format guidelines I thought it was going to take this > project straight into a application crash. So that's why I did what I did. > Do you know if this graphics limitation still exists (or if it ever did)? The message was in response to my request to join a multi-file HTML eBook with tons of images (300) into a single file. Thanks for any info or feedback you might be able to provide. -- Greg

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greek quotations with diacritical letters
by Hermann Loimer 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Dear Sir, What shall I do to be able to read greek quotations with diacritical letters in Levi Leonard Conant's essay "The Number Concept Its Origin and Development" provided by Project Gutenberg? On my computer I only can read plain greekletters without diacritic signs. Is there any software available to substitute those typographicalsquares with proper letters? Thank you for your help. Hermann Loimer --------------------------------- Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB kostenlosem Speicher

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by Howard Frank Glazer 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

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OpenReader announcement: Open-standards eBook Format and Reading System Development Discussion Groups
by Jon Noring 04 May '05

04 May '05

Quick Summary (including how to subscribe): ------------------------------------------- You are invited to subscribe and participate in one or both of the following discussion groups (hosted at YahooGroups) supporting the ongoing activities of the OpenReader Consortium: 1) "openreader-format": OpenReader Format Specification (an open-standards ebook and digital publication/document distribution format), and 2) "openreader-devel": Development of an open-source, license-free, multi-platform reference implementation of an OpenReader reading system ("user agent"). (Both projects will be summarized in the next section. For more detailed information, refer to http://www.openreader.org/ .) If you have a supportive interest in either topic, we invite you to subscribe to the group of interest. (Those who subscribe to the "user agent development" group are strongly urged to also subscribe to the Format group.) By joining either of these groups, there is no implied commitment to become an active participant in either of the associated Working Groups, although we certainly hope you will. We welcome your thoughts and insights, even if you choose not to actively participate in formal Working Group activities. The home pages to the two groups are found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openreader-format/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openreader-devel/ There is a link to subscribe to each group at the group's home page. Or, you can subscribe to either using the following email addresses: openreader-format-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com openreader-devel-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com If you prefer not to go through the process of subscribing yourself to either group, I'll be more than happy to subscribe you. Just email me (jon(a)openreader.org or jon(a)noring.name) your request to join -- be sure to specify which group(s) -- along with the email address you want to use to receive group messages. More Detailed Information about OpenReader: ------------------------------------------- As noted in the prior section, the best online resource explaining OpenReader is the current OpenReader web site (planned to soon undergo a much-needed major update and upgrade): http://www.openreader.org/ OpenReader is a cooperative project to create an open, standards-based digital publication distribution format to facilitate current, continuing, and long-term access to ebooks and other types of digital publications and documents. The OpenReader distribution format will be based on well-established XML vocabularies, publication frameworks, and W3C technologies. This includes OEBPS (the Open eBook Publication Structure framework), XHTML, CSS, MathML, SVG and XLink, to name the more important ones. Our current plans also include eventual native support for TEI, NewsML, and possibly other advanced and specialized document markup vocabularies and publication frameworks. The OpenReader Consortium will also support the development of reference implementations of programs to render OpenReader-compliant documents on a number of devices, and to convert OpenReader-compliant documents to other publication formats, such as PDF/A. There is a clear need for such a distribution format, given the present anarchy of multiple, incompatible, inflexible, and proprietary publication formats which do not provide the reading experience consumers want and publishers strive for. David Rothman, in his TeleRead blog covering the ebook, digital library, and related industries (http://www.teleread.org/blog/) aptly describes this situation as the "Tower of eBabel". While the initial focus of the OpenReader Consortium is primarily on ebooks, we intend to make the distribution format flexible enough to be applicable to a wide variety of digital publications and documents, such as periodicals, newspapers, document collections, white papers, many types of business documents, etc. We even envision the OpenReader format to be quite useful for encapsulating and archiving standards- conformant Web sites. When the HTML format and HTTP protocol were developed more than a decade ago, NCSA developed a "web browser", Mosaic, to support the format and protocol. The success of the World Wide Web was due as much to the wide-spread availability of the NCSA Mosaic browser, as it was to the openness and availability of the HTML and HTTP specifications. Similarly, we believe that it is important to develop, in conjunction with the OpenReader Format, a cross-platform, open-source, license-free reference implementation of an OpenReader rendering program, which will make the OpenReader Format Specification truly useful, to establish uniform rendering behavior, and to spur others to build their own conforming OpenReader user agents. ***** We look forward to your joining either or both groups, even if to lurk. If you know of others who may be interested in OpenReader, feel free to forward this announcement to them. We are also building a Consortium of interested companies and organizations in the digital publication and document universe who see the open-standards OpenReader as furthering their business and institutional objectives. Of course, we are looking for dedicated individuals, who agree with the OpenReader philosophy, to become leaders and help to make OpenReader a success. Thanks. Jon Noring OpenReader Consortium jon(a)openreader.org jon(a)noring.name

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catalog.rdf invalid xml
by Conrad Parker 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi, thanks for making the Project Gutenberg catalogue available in RDF. This creates many possibliities for browsing and indexing ebooks, for both personal and research uses. Unfortunately it seems the catalog.rdf file is missing some lines, and as a result cannot be parsed by strict parsers such as those in libxml2 (which is very widely used by many platforms). After some brief googling I came across Grahame Bowland's site, which includes a simple unix shell script which he developed recently: http://angrygoats.net/svn/gutenberg/fix-catalog.sh This inserts the missing entities into the DOCTYPE declaration at the top of catalog.rdf. Of course it would be better if these entities could be included in the original catalog.rdf published by Project Gutenberg :) So, would it be possible for the system that's generating catalog.rdf to include these entities? thanks, Conrad.

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Bookmark (bookmarklet)
by bert 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

This is an easier to install version of the bookmarklet: http://jove.prohosting.com/~l3ert/ Just drag and drop the link named bookmarklet onto the bookmark bar of your browser or right-click the link and choose bookmark this link.

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Bookmark (perl)
by bert 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

This Perl script transforms a txt into html and ads the javscript for bookmarking lines. The script takes one argument as parameter, the name of the txt file (ex.: 8946-8.txt) and outputs a html file (ex.: 8946-8.html). This is not a program and so requires a Perl interpretor to be installed. $file = $ARGV[0]; open(IN, $file); @lines = <IN>; close(IN); $ARGV[0] =~ /(.*)\.(.*)/; $file = $1 . '.html'; open(OUT, ">$file"); print OUT '<html><head>'; print OUT "<script>function getCookie(NameOfCookie){if(document.cookie.length>0){var begin=document.cookie.indexOf(NameOfCookie+'=');if(begin!=-1){begin+=NameOfCookie.length+1;var end=document.cookie.indexOf(';',begin);if(end==-1)end=document.cookie.length;return unescape(document.cookie.substring(begin,end));}}return null;}function setCookie(NameOfCookie,value,expiredays){var ExpireDate=new Date();ExpireDate.setTime(ExpireDate.getTime()+(expiredays*24*3600*1000));document.cookie=NameOfCookie+'='+escape(value)+((expiredays==null)?'':'; expires='+ExpireDate.toGMTString());}var bookmark=0;function init(){bookmark=getCookie('bookmark');if(bookmark==null){bookmark=0;}var a=document.getElementById('bookmark');a.href='#'+bookmark;a=document.getElementById(bookmark);a.style.backgroundColor='lavender';}function highlight(e){var a=document.getElementById(bookmark);a.style.backgroundColor='white';bookmark=e.id;e.style.backgroundColor='lavender';setCookie('bookmark',e.name,365);a=document.getElementById('bookmark');a.href='#'+bookmark;}</script>"; print OUT '</head><body onload="init();">'; print OUT '<div><a id="bookmark" href="#0">bookmark</a></div><p>'; $i = 0; foreach $line (@lines) { if ($line eq "\n") { print OUT '</p><p>'; } else { print OUT '<a id="' . $i . '" ondblclick="highlight(this);" name="' . $i++ . '">' . $line . '</a>'; } } print OUT '</p></body></html>'; close(OUT);

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Bookmark (bookmarklet)
by bert 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

This is a bookmarklet version of the javascript tool. The main advantage is that you don't have to alter the HTML file in order to use a bookmark. Once installed, use the bookmarlet to return to a bookmarked paragraph. Since my script is a bit long it cannot be installed as a regular bookmarklet. So, to install: 1- create a new bookmark (this can be done by bookmarking any html page) 2- go to Bookmarks -> Manage bookmarks... 3- right-click on your new bookmark -> Properties 4- change the name (optional) 5- replace the location with the following: javascript:(function(){function init(){var bookmark=getCookie('bookmark');if(bookmark==null){bookmark=0;}var p=document.getElementsByTagName('p');var b=document.getElementsByTagName('body');var mark=document.getElementById('mark');if(mark!=null){b[0].removeChild(mark);}mark=document.createElement('a');mark.name='bookmark';mark.id='mark';mark.innerHTML='<hr />';b[0].insertBefore(mark,p[bookmark]);p[bookmark].style.backgroundColor='lavender';for(var i=0;i<p.length;i++){p[i].ondblclick=highlight;p[i].id=i;}document.location='#bookmark';}function highlight(e){var p=document.getElementsByTagName('p');for(var i=0;i<p.length;i++){p[i].style.backgroundColor='white';}var targ;if(!e)e=window.event;if(e.target)targ=e.target;else if(e.srcElement)targ=e.srcElement;if(targ.nodeType==3)targ=targ.parentNode;targ.style.backgroundColor='lavender';setCookie('bookmark',targ.id,365);}function getCookie(NameOfCookie){if(document.cookie.length>0){var begin=document.cookie.indexOf(NameOfCookie+'=');if(begin!=-1){begin+=NameOfCookie.length+1;var end=document.cookie.indexOf(';',begin);if(end==-1)end=document.cookie.length;return unescape(document.cookie.substring(begin,end));}}return null;}function setCookie(NameOfCookie,value,expiredays){var ExpireDate=new Date();ExpireDate.setTime(ExpireDate.getTime()+(expiredays*24*3600*1000));document.cookie=NameOfCookie+%22=%22+escape(value)+((expiredays==null)?'':'; expires='+ExpireDate.toGMTString());}init();})();

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Bookmark (javascript)
by bert 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

This is the javascript version. Doubleclick on a paragraph to bookmark. After that reload the page and click the bookmark link to return to that paragraph. The bookmark is stored in a cookie so the script only works if cookie are not disabled. The script only works with HTML books that contains paragraph (as far as i know all of the HTML books do). Currently only works with Mozilla-powered browsers. Add the following script just before the end of the body section (</body>): <script> init(); function init() { var bookmark = getCookie('bookmark'); if (bookmark == null) { bookmark = 0; } var p = document.getElementsByTagName('p'); var b = document.getElementsByTagName('body'); var a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = '#bookmark'; a.innerHTML = 'bookmark'; b[0].insertBefore(a, p[0]); for (var i = 0; i < p.length; i++) { if (i == bookmark) { a = document.createElement('a'); a.name = 'bookmark'; a.innerHTML = '<hr />'; b[0].insertBefore(a, p[i]); p[i].style.backgroundColor = 'lavender'; } p[i].ondblclick = highlight; p[i].id = i; } } function highlight(e) { var p = document.getElementsByTagName('p'); for (var i = 0; i < p.length; i++) { p[i].style.backgroundColor = 'white'; } var targ; if (!e) var e = window.event; if (e.target) targ = e.target; else if (e.srcElement) targ = e.srcElement; if (targ.nodeType == 3) // defeat Safari bug targ = targ.parentNode; targ.style.backgroundColor = 'lavender'; setCookie('bookmark', targ.id, 365); } function getCookie(NameOfCookie) { if (document.cookie.length > 0) { var begin = document.cookie.indexOf(NameOfCookie+"="); if (begin != -1) // Note: != means "is not equal to" { begin += NameOfCookie.length+1; var end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", begin); if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; return unescape(document.cookie.substring(begin, end)); } } return null; } function setCookie(NameOfCookie, value, expiredays) { var ExpireDate = new Date (); ExpireDate.setTime(ExpireDate.getTime() + (expiredays * 24 * 3600 * 1000)); document.cookie = NameOfCookie + "=" + escape(value) + ((expiredays == null) ? "" : "; expires=" + ExpireDate.toGMTString()); } </script>

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