This is Geos. Things aren't always quite the way they seem. :-) In fact, there
are two things worth mentioning about this idea: [excuse my getting a bit
technical here ;-)]
- The bookreader file format, if one wants to write it from *outside* Geos, is
fairly complex, because it is basically a variation of the format in which the
Text object saves itself to external storage. Normally, the developer doesn't
even care about what this format looks like and just tells the Text to "store
itself".
- OTOH, the Book Reader is largely a subclassed text object (i.e. something
that accepts text as the text object does, but adds something "extra", like
hyperlinks and graphics). As I can tell from my own experience, an HTML viewer
would not be very different from that, except that it would add contents to the
text object "on the fly" instead of reading them from a storage file, which
could result in a certain speed advantage...
I still think that an HTML->Book Reader converter would be a Good Thing, but
mainly as a "first stage" filter for Bindery, i.e. as an authoring tool for
converting existing text... anyone at Geoworks listening to me? ;-)
Is there enough reference information out there that comes in HTML format to
make it worth writing a view-only HTML browser optimized of the OG?
ciao marcus