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In alt.html.critique The Doormouse wrote:

What a great page

Good work and good luck on your endeavor!

Thanks!

Ian
--
I will not weary you with descriptions of quiet,
similar, uninteresting days,--days of sleep,
and pipes, and coffee. (Sir R.F. Burton)
http://www.bookstacks.org/

In article <Xns9568D4B3BA885loneliestmonk (AT) 130 (DOT) 133.1.4>,
Ian Rastall <idrastall (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

In alt.html.critique The Doormouse wrote:

If he created mp3's, too, of each book as read aloud

I went so far as to buy a microphone to do just that, and
discovered two things: one, the bandwidth would definitely be too
much, and two, I'm not a voice actor. :-) Some sort of VoiceXML
solution might work, one day.

A more immediate problem is using CSS to provide better support
for screen readers and voice browsers.

Ian

When I continuosly click on the "bookstacks" logo, it breaks your page.
I'm using OS 9.1 and Mozilla 1.2b

"Ian Rastall" <idrastall (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

A more immediate problem is using CSS to provide better support
for screen readers and voice browsers.

It works reasonably well in IBM's HPR (text to speech program) despite the

somewhat "flat" reading!. Some sort of "skip to main content" link would be
useful though to save trawling through the list of authors every time you go
to a new chapter/page.

Again, its a great project.

Deryck

Ian Rastall wrote:

In alt.html.critique The Doormouse wrote:

If he created mp3's, too, of each book as read aloud

I went so far as to buy a microphone to do just that, and
discovered two things: one, the bandwidth would definitely be too
much, and two, I'm not a voice actor. :-)

Perhaps bittorrent and speex could solve your bandwidth problem. As for
the voice acting, I guess you'll have to entice volunteers .

http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html
http://www.speex.org/

--
Ben M.

In alt.html.critique Always More Questions wrote:

When I continuosly click on the "bookstacks" logo, it breaks
your page. I'm using OS 9.1 and Mozilla 1.2b

That's another good reason for me to take it out. I forgot that I
never tested anything on a Mac, not that I would be able to. A page
that simple should't break on anyone's browser ideally.

Ian
--
I will not weary you with descriptions of quiet,
similar, uninteresting days,--days of sleep,
and pipes, and coffee. (Sir R.F. Burton)
http://www.bookstacks.org/

In alt.html.critique Deryck wrote:

Some sort of "skip to main content" link would be useful
though to save trawling through the list of authors every time
you go to a new chapter/page.

That's a good idea. That goes on the top of the to-do list.

Again, its a great project.

Thanks a lot!

Ian
--
I will not weary you with descriptions of quiet,
similar, uninteresting days,--days of sleep,
and pipes, and coffee. (Sir R.F. Burton)
http://www.bookstacks.org/

In alt.html.critique Ben Measures wrote:

Perhaps bittorrent and speex could solve your bandwidth
problem.

That would do it. I haven't heard of speex, so I'll look into it.

Ian
--
I will not weary you with descriptions of quiet,
similar, uninteresting days,--days of sleep,
and pipes, and coffee. (Sir R.F. Burton)
http://www.bookstacks.org/

Ian Rastall <idrastall (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

A page
that simple should't break on anyone's browser ideally.

In a perfect world, all browsers would be standards-compliant, too.

I would aim for the 95% solution - make sure that your page is standards-
compliant (it is) and that it looks good on the top browsers. Someone,
soemwhere, will always dig up a ghetto browser that won't display your
page properly.

I like IE6 and Firefox.

The Doormouse

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In article <Xns956976330E0BEloneliestmonk (AT) 130 (DOT) 133.1.4>,
Ian Rastall <idrastall (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

In alt.html.critique Always More Questions wrote:

When I continuosly click on the "bookstacks" logo, it breaks
your page. I'm using OS 9.1 and Mozilla 1.2b

That's another good reason for me to take it out. I forgot that I
never tested anything on a Mac, not that I would be able to. A page
that simple should't break on anyone's browser ideally.

Ian

I know the feeling. Maybe every other week I have access to my friends
winbox. Or I suppose I could go to the library more often.

I just try to design my pages as simple as possible and hope for the
best...and that IE will continously lose market share.