On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote: > > Caroline, >> >> The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small >> website for offline reading. >> >> I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some >> discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with offline >> websites stored in Zip files. >> > > +1 Yep, this is on the roadmap for 0.86. It would open up using a whole new > set of content directly through a well tagged Journal (no need at all for > the old .xol format and it's non-standard use of browse to access the > information through a custom scripted home page). Great, so no need for us to put in any tickets or anything? Is there somewhere I can make a note of where these specific books are, they would make a great test case. > > > --Gary > > This is actually a more popular format >> than you might think. For instance, Project Gutenberg has a bunch of >> illustrated books in that format, for instance _The Innocents Abroad_ by >> Mark Twain is one. It is reasonable to assume that some future version >> of Browse will be able to work with Zip files like this one. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> Caroline Meeks wrote: >> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> Here is another interesting source of books. How hard to make a reader >>> for these? Or would we do something completely different? >>> >>> http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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