Re: Dropbox has epub viewer

Well, yes, the only view they seem to have is ³scroll-continuous².  Not sure
what they are doing to the CSS, but a single EPUB that I tried ended up
being laid out in centered text (all of it) even though the text¹s CSS
didn¹t request anything of the sort.

Ric


From:  Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
Date:  Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 8:05 AM
To:  "Xu, Zheng | KGB" <zheng.xu@rakuten.com>
Cc:  W3C Publishing Working Group <public-publ-wg@w3.org>
Subject:  Re: Dropbox has epub viewer
Resent-From:  <public-publ-wg@w3.org>
Resent-Date:  Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:05:16 +0000

Wow.

There is no paginated view, though. What it seems to do is to put all the
text into a giant scroll. But it is goodŠ

Thanks for the info

Ivan

> On 19 Jun 2018, at 16:56, Xu, Zheng | KGB <zheng.xu@rakuten.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just noticed this today when I opened a dropbox folder of epubs.
> Pretty interesting and smooth UX for me.
> 
> https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/05/01/dropbox-quietly-launches-an-epub-vie
> wer/
>  
> <https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/05/01/dropbox-quietly-launches-an-epub-vi
> ewer/> 
> Dropbox Quietly Launches an Epub Viewer | The Digital Reader
> <https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/05/01/dropbox-quietly-launches-an-epub-vi
> ewer/> 
> the-digital-reader.com <http://the-digital-reader.com/>
> Dropbox is a popular way to store your ebooks and other files online, and now
> they have made it a little easier to read those ebooks. A reader has tipped me
> to the news that Dropbox now has an Epub viewer built into its website. Simply
> double click on one of the Epub files you have uploaded to your ...
> 
> Thanks,
> Zheng


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