... What a terrific interview! (Jon, you ought to post this to ebook-community, where I'll bet it will really provoke some controversy.) Whether you agree with...
... Here are the questions I sent you earlier, edited only slightly to use the name Orca for the user agent (I've got to lobby whenever I get the chance). ORF...
... Well, regarding Orca, I really like that name. You have my vote. My only concern is if the name is taken by any product remotely similar to what we want to...
Everyone, Even though we are now working on a "version 2.0" of the OpenReader web site, it was decided we do a little rework of the present interim site. The...
[The following announcement was made to The eBook Community by David Teller. Congratulations on this milestone! Jon] The OpenBerg project is happy to tell you...
[I'm forwarding this to the OpenReader working group forums. It was originally posted to The eBook Community forum. Give it a whirl! Requires Firefox 1.0.x to...
... Great work, David! I tested your Milestone 1 (which I'll call OB1) on a couple OEBPS 1.0.1 Publications I have (there is no OEBPS 1.1, just to note), and...
Thanks Jon, Just for the sake of referencing, I'll start by pointing out that we finally adopted a somewhat readable numbering scheme. Milestone 1 is therefore...
... Hmmm, it probably is better to call it OBM1, or OBM1.7 ... Ah, ok! I thought the problem was with the MIME type of "text/oeb1-css", but you say it is...
... Of course, each document in the spine can have its own style sheet, and that can complicate things, too. But the benefits outweigh the added complication. ...
Everyone, Today I will be giving a talk about OpenReader in one of the sessions of the online "Let's Go Library Expo" hosted by Planet Library and sponsored by...
... The following is a snippet from the message I recently posted to the e-book community group. My proposed TPM solution for the OpenReader reference...
< It would also permit the design and ... Alas, the publishers will take TPM seriously. Far better to encourage a standardized version rather than just have a...
Thanks for this, Lee. It makes a whole lot of sense to me, as does David's comment; however, open source or not, I assume it would have to be modular to ...
Everyone, It is important the OpenReader Format meet international standards. After all, if the format is intended to be universal, it must truly be ...
Everyone, Following are two replies to my inquiry on the public list XML-DEV regarding the internationalization of URIs. Both mentioned "IRI", International...
... Not that it matters, but it's already a full-fledged RFC. See RFC 2026, which describes the IETF standardization process. An RFC may be "informational",...
For those interested, the OpenReader Consortium has redone its web site. The old site was woefully inadequate, both in layout/design and in its content. (Yes,...
I have completed a very preliminary, and patently incomplete, design document for the OpenReader reference implementation (Orca). It is now available at ...
I am not snipping any portion of Mr. Janssen's reply, so that individuals in other forums where this message was not posted can have the full reply. ... Well,...
[posted to OR-Format and OR-Devel groups.] ... In essence, what makes the OpenReader Format is not the encapsulation method, but the "creamy filling." In terms...
... How do you get this? Every Web client and server has to implement it. Every MIME toolkit has it. What bogus reference are you getting this bit of...
... Well, I think we all know that binaries can be encoded (e.g. mimencoded) into a MIME format (otherwise how can we email binaries to our friends?), but when...
... Yes, I definitely was not very precise in communication there, particularly in that "8-bit" as I used it is ambiguous. Let me restate what I wrote: the...
... Jon, I've answered these questions already at least 3 times in this forum. I'm not sure what good repeating the answers does if you continue to ignore...
... I apologize. There's several new people on these groups, and repeating this information will be useful. I'd rather you to mention it than me since you are...
Hi, ... This may have been covered earlier, but I'm curious as to what kind of catalog or index would be used in a multipart MIME file to speed access to the...