Re: Discover new usage of epub

> On 5 Jan 2022, at 14:11, Xu Zheng (gardenia) <zxu@gardenia-corp.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for try it out Ivan!
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> Lemme also try out it with EPUBReader extension. Maybe it's time to add simple Q&A on the website now.
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> Yeah, wysebee allows javascript to run as content creator wish so I think that might be the secret for this book. (probably can convert/package all the W3C spec to epub and run on wysebee now)
I have a tool that I had put together a while ago (it can also be used from respec via the 'export' tool):

https://github.com/iherman/r2epub <https://github.com/iherman/r2epub>

I am just working on an update: it needs it due to the changes in the W3C publication process in 2021 that made a thorough revamp of some CSS files, logos, etc.

> Also it could be because the tool https://github.com/gardenia-corp/wyse <https://github.com/gardenia-corp/wyse> generated epub does not have fallback for html resource so it was treated as invalid epub by some reader. I will also check it out.
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> Another thing is I added sandbox feature in wysebee.com so next thing I am gonna try out is to drop the epub test contents (from https://github.com/w3c/epub-tests <https://github.com/w3c/epub-tests>) to it and see if could pass some test (I suspect it could only pass few of them right now).
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Hey, if you do that, would you be ready to (eventually) submit that as an official implementation report? That would be cool…

Cheers

Ivan

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> Also, epub validation tool is on the way I wish I could have 30 hrs every day, I need to hire dev :)
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> Cheers,
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> Zheng
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> On 2022-01-05 1:10 a.m., Ivan Herman wrote:
>> I had the same in Firefox; but, at least in my case, this was issued by the EPUBReader extension that I have in Firefox. Ruth, may that be the same for you?
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>> It works fine on Safari and Chrome (on Mac Monterey). And they are cool…
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>> However: I am not sure what happens in the last entry. I downloaded the HTML book epub and I tried it in Calibre and Thorium, and it did not properly display. I did not look at         the details, but I suspect the book rely on the execution of respec on the HTML source and this does not seem to work. (Respec is an pretty complex script to run, I doubt that Reading Systems are prepared for it.) For the demo of your reader it may be better to use an epub that is created after having dumped the respec results separately…
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>> Thanks!
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>> Now… Zheng, you will to reveal your secrets as for what happens behind the scenes exactly…
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>> Ivan
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>>> On 4 Jan 2022, at 22:01, Ruth Tait <artbyrt@gmail.com <mailto:artbyrt@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> Firefox on Mac gives message “not valid epub file” on all links… was able to open content in Safari.
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>>> Ruth Tait
>>> https://www.artbyrt.com <https://www.artbyrt.com/>
>>> 613-604-2781
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>>>> On Jan 4, 2022, at 8:16 AM, Xu Zheng (gardenia) <zxu@gardenia-corp.com> <mailto:zxu@gardenia-corp.com> wrote:
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>>>> Happy new year!
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>>>> We created this small test website to demo some new usage of epub file.
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>>>> The demo contents used in this website are all epub.
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>>>> The concept is to experiment the way to give website creator full control of user experience.
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>>>> Please feel free to try it out and give me feedback. Any feedback is more than welcome.
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>>>> http://wysebee.com/ <http://wysebee.com/>
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>>>> Next step for the website is to add sandbox to let creator test epub easily and of course add more and more contents.
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>>>> If you would like to join as beta user and receive notification when we have any update please feel free to let me know through this email.
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>>>> Cheers,
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>>>> --
>>>> Zheng Xu
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>>>> Chief Executive Office
>>>> Gardenia Corp
>>>> https://gardenia-corp.com/ <https://gardenia-corp.com/>
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> Zheng Xu
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> Gardenia Corp
> https://gardenia-corp.com/ <https://gardenia-corp.com/>

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