Re: [NTLK] Newton Books in Mozilla

Hi Woody,

i haven't tried to run the Mozilla's "Newton Books Reader" on
anything else than FireFox,
so i am not responding to your question, sorry, but i would want to
take the chance
to leave a report about my experiencing it on my computer:

I installed the Mozilla's extension and started reading
Newton books from my collection in less than a minute!

[How to install a new extension in Firefox?
Unzip the downloaded file and drag it to a new blank window,
A log will show-up with a report about installing procedure.
Await some seconds to let Firefox restart itself
then browse the Firefox 'Tools' on the menu bar
and select the "Newton Book Reader" option from the caret]

Want to give it a try?! http://www.newtonslibrary.org/nbrdr/

I needed to change the system display dimensions to get a really
pleasant reading session,
but as stated, the Mozilla's Newton reader is an alpha quality software.

I am already amazed by the rendering capabilities obtained through xml,
so i just can't imagine how cool it will become during next months!!!

Thanks,

Adriano

'Green is better'
http://www.homepage.mac.com/adriano.angelillis/

Il giorno 19/mar/06, alle ore 16:28, Woody Smith ha scritto:

> I changed the Subject line and am putting this out to the group again
> because since Greg first mentioned it in January, there has been
> almost no comment. And i see this as am important contribution.
> The only device that I have that runs Mozilla is my desktop computer
> and to be honest i don't find the converted books to be particularly
> readable, however the text can be cut and pasted. This has allowed
> me to extract the text from a compiled Newton Book and reformat it to
> fit my Newton's display and to accommodate my visual needs. Thank
> you Eric.
>
> In the past I used NewtsCape by Steve Weyer to save the book as a
> Newtworks paper and reformatted it. This is slow and has twice
> contributed to causing flash cards to fail, probably because the
> files are huge.
>
> Has anyone tried this extension on a hand held device like the Nokia
> 770?
>
> Woody
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Eric W. Brown wrote:
>>> A Mozilla extension that reads Newton Books...
>>>
>>> http://www.newtonslibrary.org/nbrdr/

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