Re: Dropbox has epub viewer

Works for vertically scrollable manga.  Is my example
publicly accessible?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qfyumqfh9fe03n/torinomeReflowSC.epub?dl=0

Regards,
Makoto

2018-06-20 0:34 GMT+09:00 Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>:

> Dropbox is a W3C member. Maybe the chairs should reach out to the AC rep?
>
> ivan
>
>
> On 19 Jun 2018, at 17:22, Benjamin Young <byoung@bigbluehat.com> wrote:
>
> It is presented as a "giant scroll", but there are (however imperceptibly)
> wrapping lines around each <section> which contains each resources XHTML
> contents.
>
> Each of those <section>'s have `data-type="titlepage"
> epub:type="titlepage"` (or whatever epub:type was there), but otherwise the
> body of the XHTML is dumped into that section.
>
> Doing that does get them Ctrl+F "out of the box" across all the contents.
>
> Regardless of these details, we should certainly get them involved in this
> work--if at all possible!
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
>
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> *From:* Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 19, 2018 11:05:10 AM
> *To:* Xu, Zheng | KGB
> *Cc:* W3C Publishing Working Group
> *Subject:* Re: Dropbox has epub viewer
>
> 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 good…
>
> 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-viewer/
>
> <https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/05/01/dropbox-quietly-launches-an-epub-viewer/>
> Dropbox Quietly Launches an Epub Viewer | The Digital Reader
> <https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/05/01/dropbox-quietly-launches-an-epub-viewer/>
> 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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> Ivan Herman, W3C
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Makoto

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