- From: Zheng Xu <zhengxu7806@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 18:22:23 -0500
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Juan Corona <juan@legible.com>, W3C Publishing Community Group <public-publishingcg@w3.org>, W3C Publishing Business Group <public-publishingbg@w3.org>, public-pom@w3.org
- Message-ID: <f88547e3-8ef4-3f7f-6002-73dfd5471cc0@gmail.com>
Oh nice. Also CC POM CG Yeah this work looks like could fit in the second goal of POM CG. I wonder if anyone from POM CG would be interested in sharing the status of CG or continue the work? Maybe could join PCG as a TF or make some joint effort if anyone would be interested in? # I am ok with moving code base from personal repo to PCG if could find common interesting. Cheers, Zheng On 2021-03-01 5:43 a.m., Ivan Herman wrote: > Zheng, > > +1 to this work… > > Just a small factoid: a few years ago a separate Community Group was > created called the 'Publication Object Model CG'[1]. Unfortunately, > the work did not go anywhere, apart from some early emails exchanges. > Nevertheless, it may be worth contacting the members of that WG to see > if they would be interested in joining the work. (I would expect [1] > would have to be closed down). > > Ivan > > > > [1] https://www.w3.org/community/pom/ <https://www.w3.org/community/pom/> > >> On 27 Feb 2021, at 22:21, Zheng Xu <zhengxu7806@gmail.com >> <mailto:zhengxu7806@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Juan >> >> >> Awesome! I think the epub3 model concept is very similar which is to >> represent epub as a ts/js object. >> >> My next step is to develop xml project to serialize/deserialize the >> object to epub file. >> >> I think it's a great idea to create ide like epub editor. >> >> >> Let's see if we can work out something together. Or maybe even form a >> short term TF to define epub as object model. >> >> >> Cheer, >> >> Zheng >> >> >> On 2021-02-27 3:19 p.m., Juan Corona wrote: >>> Hey Zheng, >>> >>> Nice work, I'm excited to check this out! >>> >>> My first thought on this is to share that I've been working on >>> something similar: >>> https://github.com/jccr/epubavocado >>> <https://github.com/jccr/epubavocado> >>> >>> I built this originally for a side project of mine, to build a >>> highly technical EPUB viewer, possibly editor. >>> My idea was to build this around VS Code (actually using >>> https://theia-ide.org/ <https://theia-ide.org/>) >>> >>> Do we have something in common with these concepts? Would love to >>> discuss! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Juan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 10:46 AM Xu Zheng <zhengxu7806@gmail.com >>> <mailto:zhengxu7806@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All >>> >>> >>> I started to work on some personal project around epub again. >>> >>> Here is a very first little step - define epub as ts/js object. >>> I will >>> use it in my another project but please feel free to use it if >>> it could >>> benefit your project. Any feedback/issues are more than welcome. >>> >>> >>> https://www.npmjs.com/package/epub-object-ts >>> <https://www.npmjs.com/package/epub-object-ts> >>> >>> https://github.com/Jeffxz/epub-object-ts >>> <https://github.com/Jeffxz/epub-object-ts> >>> >>> >>> Side Notes: >>> >>> After all these years working on web browser and epub I started to >>> believe there is some possibility of epub as application that >>> could be >>> executed offline. The application that not focusing on replicating >>> physical publication such as pagination and TOC but to unleash the >>> creativity of web content engineer could be a different concept >>> for epub >>> use cases (but still within epub spec scope). And recently I >>> started my >>> new journey to experiment this idea. >>> >>> >>> Then what is a epub reader, right? Yes in this concept there is >>> not any >>> reader (since the package is not a book anymore). Web browser >>> should be >>> the main player. >>> >>> What should I call it? Single entry epub? Single page epub? I am >>> not >>> sure yet. >>> >>> If anyone would be interested in this concept please feel free >>> to reach >>> out to me we can discuss. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Zheng >>> >>> W3C: https://www.w3.org/users/129468 >>> <https://www.w3.org/users/129468> >>> >>> Github: https://github.com/Jeffxz <https://github.com/Jeffxz> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Zheng Xu >> >> W3C:https://www.w3.org/users/129468 >> Github:https://github.com/Jeffxz > > > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ <http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/> > mobile: +33 6 52 46 00 43 > ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704 > <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704> > -- Zheng Xu W3C: https://www.w3.org/users/129468 Github: https://github.com/Jeffxz
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