[Web4lib] More on the Open Content Alliance

[Roy Tennant]

I have to agree that this form of presentation isn't necessarily the  
best. Although if things work well it provides a "gee whiz" kind of  
experience, I personally think the "page turning" animation is just a  
tad too cutesy while potentially introducing problems. But whatever.  
The thing with the Open Content Alliance is that if you don't like  
the presentation at that site, grab it and put it up in a way that  
floats your boat. Go get it at <http://ia300002.us.archive.org/1/ 
items/openlibrary/>. Remember, this project is not Google Library. In  
many cases you have choices.
Roy

On Oct 27, 2005, at 6:44 AM, Enrico Silterra wrote:

> I search on words I am looking at and I get "no hits".
> I open the opening page, and I get a message from IE that there
> are javascript errors.
>
> ditto on:
> Whatever happened to good old fashioned straight HTML, eh?
>
> This seems like a very worthwhile project, but as a presentation
> of the concepts behind the projects, I don't get positive feelings.
>
> just my 2 yoctocents,
> Rick Silterra
>
>
>
> At 09:21 AM 10/27/2005 +0100, J.P.Knight wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Roy Tennant wrote:
>>
>>> <http://www.openlibrary.org/details/openlibrary>
>>>
>>
>> Awww, what a horrible website.  I know its trying to look like a  
>> book, but this is the web!  I was sitting there clicking on the  
>> "Open Library" image with no luck thinking it was a splash  
>> screen.  The navigation stuff on the right hand side was a bit  
>> screwed up with the size of my web browser so I didn't spot it at  
>> first and even when I did, I assumed that the arrows applied to  
>> the "listen" button next to them (which I didn't bother with as I  
>> don't have speakers on my workstation).  When I did happen to  
>> click on the right hand "page" to flip it over, the left hand edge  
>> of the new left hand page was cut off until I resized my browser  
>> window.
>>
>> Whatever happened to good old fashioned straight HTML, eh?
>>
>> Jim'll
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