Re: [NTLK] Newton Books in Mozilla

From: Eric W. Brown <feneric_at_mac.com>
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 14:12:34 EDT

> I installed the Mozilla's extension and started reading
> Newton books from my collection in less than a minute!
> ...
> Want to give it a try?! http://www.newtonslibrary.org/nbrdr/

I'm glad it's working well for you.

> 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.

Yes, the Newton fonts aren't the best choice for a desktop system.
That's one of really just a few largish things left to correct before
it'll become (IMHO) a fairly comfortable reading environment. It'll
get there.

> 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!!!

Specifically it uses a fair amount of XUL (driven by JavaScript) for
windows and controls, with RDF for some back-end stuff. The actual
rendering is handled by CSS. At some point in the future I may
consider upgrading to a more XML-based rendering system like XSL-FO,
but for now CSS is a little easier to work with / better supported.

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