[Web4lib] More on the Open Content Alliance

[Roy Tennant]

FYI, more information on the Ajax-based Flipbook viewer that everyone  
seems to hate is available at <http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/ 
2005/10/introducing-open-library-and-ajax.html>.
Roy

On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Jennifer Heise wrote:

> Huh? 'In many cases you have choices'?
> You're darn right it isn't Google Library-- the desire to do  
> something cool and splashy instead of being easy to read, which  
> haunts librarianship, has clearly run amuck there. I don't care if  
> it's 'quite beautiful', I want to be able to use it. And the main  
> pages just don't work, either of them. Sneaking around to the 'back  
> door' via directory listing isn't a 'choice' of how to view it,  
> it's a kludgey work-around.  There's no direct link to a 'side  
> door' for text from either of the front pages, and there's no  
> obvious list of the texts available.
>
> You don't have to abandon useable design just to distance your  
> website from Google.
>
> -- Jenne Heise
>
> On 10/27/05, Roy Tennant <roy.tennant at ucop.edu> wrote: 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>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Whatever happened to good old fashioned straight HTML, eh?
>
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