Presenting EPUB and/or EPUB content over internet to visitors - automatically?

[dgatwood]

Originally Posted by carlosbcg

I mean things can't be this seemingly difficult. EPUB is just XHTML underneat and every browser worth anything these days can read XHTML. Throw in some simple Javascript and voila...one should be able to have a cross browser, fully compatible, simple EPUB reader.

It's easy to get halfway there, with a reader that scrolls. Doing pagination in a normally scrolling browser window is a good bit harder. There are CSS tricks that might make it feasible to at least support full justification on the last line of the page, but it would still be a lot of code to handle splitting paragraphs correctly.

[carlosbcg]

Originally Posted by dgatwood

...but it would still be a lot of code to handle splitting paragraphs correctly.

And if I may say so...a lot of work too!

That's why I was looking for a pre-made, cross browser solution of which I have yet to find just the right one though I may be able to do something with chunks of code from existing Javascript readers (where the license allows me to do that).

I haven't really run with this just yet as I am still working on finishing up my EPUB, content wise, which also involves a lot of work.

Once I finish it though I will come back to this issue of figuring out how best to present it for online reading through a browser which I have to do.

This thread was my attempt to find something quick without taking too much time out to implement it.

Carlos

[carlosbcg]

Originally Posted by Jellby

Some time ago I wrote a quick-and-dirty script (for linux) that allowed me at least to test an EPUB in the browser and check formatting and TOC. If you can do some programming, maybe you can turn it into some server-side scripting code, or find someone who can.

That's very gracious of you to provide that script Jellby. Thanks for offering to let me use it. I may play with it some or do something with parts of it (like getting the TOC which I have been looking to do on my own through a script).

But what I may do is just use some of your logic and implement it in a server side PHP script which should be able to do the same thing I think.

Carlos

[theducks]

There is a plugin for Firefox that displays EPUB
You need 2 things: Firefox and the Plugin
Diehard IE users, and others are less lucky

[roger64]

Hi

I just accidentally found - again - a Firefox extension which works pretty well at least to display EPUB (it can do other things but I did not try them). I had used it previously and thought it was dead. This version is said to be from the 9th of February 2013. It's really worth a try.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lucifox/

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by roger64

Hi

I just accidentally found - again - a Firefox extension which works pretty well at least to display EPUB (it can do other things but I did not try them). I had used it previously and thought it was dead. This version is said to be from the 9th of February 2013. It's really worth a try.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lucifox/

There is also ePUBReader here on this forum. To avoid finding things by accident try our wiki.

Dale

[roger64]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

There is also ePUBReader here on this forum. To avoid finding things by accident try our wiki.

Dale

Thank you. I had a closer look on the wiki and did indeed find Lucifox but I added it in a new paragraph intended for web browsers (3).
Here is a view of the same file from ADE 1.72 (1) and another from Lucifox (2) to compare with. You may have to adjust the zooming and window size.

I think it's a decent choice.