[Web4lib] More on the Open Content Alliance

[Lars Aronsson]

Roy Tennant wrote:

> 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>.

The web design of openlibrary.org is great fun and I'll try to use 
it as inspiration even though it needs a lot of tuning before it 
can become useful.

For example, the "listen" link that leads to "There is presently 
no recording available for this book" needs to be a wiki-style 
"edit" link, so that I can read the text of this page into the 
system here and now.  Can you do sound uploads in web forms? HTML 
clearly needs a <soundarea> tag for this.  And a <videoarea> for 
sign language uploads and editing.  Can Firefox do video editing?  
It should, if this is going to be the Web 2.0.

Will the sound playback be synchronized with the text, karaoke 
style? What would HTML for karaoke look like? Can AJAX do that?

The web we have now is just so primitive, so 20th century.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/