Since GPL has been discussed here recently, a few of you may be interested in the following article (an interview with Eric Raymond of Linux fame) which...
... 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...
The ietf-822 mailing list at the Internet Mail Consortium is debating whether to introduce a new set of Content-Transfer-Encodings to allow compression of...
I have searched for a suitable encapsulation format (with or without compression) for quite some time now, but I haven't found anything nice. All seems to be...
... This is why having a designated decision maker is important. A direct answer to your question ("Why not make a simple file format that suits OR just...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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...
Hello Jon and David here is something I would like to mail you... Have you ever thought of programming a VECTOR (based) eBook Designer? This could be a...
Hallo Jörg, I must admit I don't really understand this message. By Vector, do you mean the usual sense of the word, as in Vector-based drawing and rendering...
Everyone, It is important the OpenReader Format meet international standards. After all, if the format is intended to be universal, it must truly be ...
JonN, I am copying Chris Lilley from the W3C because he is an expert. Chris, Any comments for Jon? Does the latest public draft of SVG Tiny 1.2 contain the...
... I am, admittedly, no expert on decoding ABNF, but as I read the RFC, and the referenced RFC2234, every part of a URI must eventually reduce to a US-ASCII...
... According to the XML specification, section 4.2.2: System identifiers (and other XML strings meant to be used as URI references) MAY contain characters...
... Nope. ZIP requires that filenames be in ASCII (technically ISO-Latin-1) - however, since UTF-8 is a valid subset of both, many implementations will write...
... I'm not sure I understand that comment - while Unicode code points are certainly a superset of ISO-Latin-1, a UTF-8 string and an ISO- Latin-1 string are...
... They are, if you don't know anything about UTF-8 decoding ;). The whole point of UTF-8 is to able to encode 2 (or 4) byte Unicode into only 1 bite, such...
... The whole point of UTF8 is to support ASCII, not ISO-Latin-1. That and to have smaller documents than UTF16. A side benefit is the lack of embedded NULLs,...
... That's the nice part about the mail header character set tagging -- you don't have to guess, because the value is explicitly tagged with the character set...
... True... ... No, it's to "hack around" the problem that the ZIP file format was invented before Unicode and no one seems willing to break compatibility to...
... One should be careful not to confuse the ASCII character set (Unicode code points 0-127) with ASCII encoding (characters having no more than 7 significant...
... Hmm, I didn't find this requirement in the ZIPAF specification (http://www.pkware.com/business_and_developers/developer/popups/appnote.txt). If you could...
Just to make it clear: The value of a mail header can be in any character set or language registered with IANA, or even mix several of each. In addition, each...
... Heh. I almost suggested that. I think the old Gemstar tools can do this (as a GUI, no less), though they are now eBook Technology tools. If you grab the...
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