I am forwarding in a separate mail your technical questions to the developers (Raphaël Badin and Renaud Bernard) but here are some immediate answers :
- yes, co-ment works with both Firefox and IE (though it was the usual nightmare to solve some issues in IE). - we have limits on size of text uploads that are due to the OpenOffice converter that we are using, but a Shakespeare play is definitely OK. In practice cutting and pasting gives most of the time better results than uploading from a word processor. I have just uploaded "As you like it" by cut and paste and turned to public viewing and commenting to public. You can test it at : http://www.co-ment.net/text/104/ Philippe Le Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:17:57 Rufus Pollock, vous avez écrit : > Philippe Aigrain wrote: [...] > Wow, Phillipe this is amazing -- I'm particularly happy that the code is > in python. > > I'll definitely be checking this out. We developed our original code [1] > for use on http://demo.openshakespeare.net but have been hampered by the > performance issues of using js to parse through large texts (e.g. a > shakespeare play). One way to deal with this (that the author of > marginalia has explored) is to use xpath locations but that apparently > does not work on IE. How have you dealt with the performance issues and > does co-ment work in both IE and Firefox? > > > [1]: http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/svn/annotater/trunk > > > We operate the service at : > > http://www.co-ment.net > > > > The code is at : > > http://www.sopinspace.com/products/co-ment/en?set_language=en&cl=en > > I'll definitely take a look. I'm particular interested by your copyright > statement: > > <quote> > It is to our knowledge one of the first instances of distribution of the > full code base of a large Web 2.0 application service. In order to > protect the source code against possible reproprietarization, we need to > use a license whose copyleft clause is strong enough for guaranteeing > that any operator of a Web service based on modified code has to > redistribute the code for the full server and client application under > the same license. We are making it sure by distributing the code under > the Affero GPLv3 license. It is forbidden to run a Web service or other > product or service in the classes and geographical regions covered by > the co-ment trademark without the trademark owner's authorization. The > future distribution of the source code will contain a trademark clause > forbidding the licensee to use the co-ment trademark unless specifically > authorized by its owner. > </quote> > > As you point out pure GPL does not deal with the 'service problem'. In > this regard I don't know whether you've seen the work we've been doing > on an Open Service Definition: > > <http://www.opendefinition.org/osd/> > > Regards, > > Rufus -- Philippe Aigrain Founder and CEO, Sopinspace, Society for Public Information Spaces 4, passage de la Main d'Or, F-75011 Paris, France Tel: +33 1 55 28 37 65 - Fax: +33 1 55 28 37 69 [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.sopinspace.com ------------------------------------------------------ SARL Sopinspace, Society for Public Information Spaces RCS 451 436 604 - SIRET 451 436 604 00016 - APE 721Z _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
