WebOS Internals - User contributions [en]

EBook-Reader

2009-08-15T00:01:19Z

MOE-GUNZ: /* Features Wish List */

===Application description from a users perspective ===
Scene 1: Splash image and 3 buttons: [[Image: Scene1.png|thumb|right]]

.. Where I left off ... -- Opens the last book you read at the place you stopped.

.. Bookmarks ... -- opens a list of the books you have bookmarks in and lets you open them to there. -- previews 2 lines above and below bookmark.

... Library ... -- opens a scrollable page of "shelves" Each shelf has a label which is user defined, and each shelf presents the books on it as a coverflow. Books can be moved between shelves by dragging and dropping. Each shelf has a context menu to control order, title, author or user defined. If user defined menu will present shelf as a draggable list instead of a coverflow when you want to re-order books. backswipe returns to coverflow.

in either the bookmarks view, tapping a book takes you to either the bookmark or the title page. upswipe downswipe provide smooth scrolling. Left and right swipe provide page at a time scrolling. Back swipe in gesture offers to bookmark with a dialog and returns to the shelf you came from.

When on a book, top left menu presents presentation options, which can be set book by book or globally. Type face (if I can figure out how), size, leading, justification, colors etc..

Images default to no larger than 1/4 screen, but touch results in lightbox like zoom.

Menu at splash or library offers import, and delete of books. When in a shelf, books can be deleted by dragging them to the recycle.

===Features Wish List===
# on-pc conversion of various formats to pre-compatible format -probably using plucker distiller. Should support
## html
## rde
## doc
## m4b
## pdb (palm-doc)
## pdb (isilo), prc (unencrypted mobipocket)
## prc (encrypted) # lots of people with a ton of fictionwise books want this
## epub [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB]
## plain text
## plucker
## .lit
# on Pre conversion of html and text docs by download from the cloud.
# Library supports user definable catagories for sorting and shelving
#: Shelves can be user defined to hold any collection of books a reader cares to:
#* By author
#* By Genre
#* By Geography
#* By cover color
#* By Series # very useful to group books in a series together
#: The ''user'' should define the sorting catagories. Shelf design can initially be a scroll list like the Contacts app.
# Book display page is minimally invasive making the most space available to read on as possible
# Typography is bifocal friendly. User definable print sizes, and if possible type faces.
# user defined foreground/background colors for text.
## Sepia
## Night mode
## Adjust screen brightness
# multiple bookmarks per doc.
# shallow menus
# smooth scrolling or page-at-a-time scrolling by gestures.
## plucker style button-based scrolling
## swipe gesture based scrolling
## auto-scrolling with user adjustable speed
### Pause auto-scrolling by tapping gesture area
# support for covers.
# coverflow view of shelves.
# easy rapid sorting of books onto shelves.
# Change text size
# Possibly be able to add books over Wi-Fi
# Copy & Paste words
## Dictionary search implemented

===Data Structure===

'''Table: Catalog'''
* catalogId: (globally unique ID - a system generated number)
* Title: string
* Author: string
* Genre: string
* catalogType: (B,S - book or series)
* ShelfId:
* CoverImage: Filename

'''Table: BookSeries'''
* bookseriesId: (globally unique ID - a system generated number)
* catSeriesId: (must be present in book table and the catType must be 'S')
* catBookId: (must be present in book table and the catType must be 'B')

'''Table: Bookmarks'''
* bkmkId:
* bookId: (must be present in book table)
* Position: ( an integer, refering to the character in the file at the top of the screen.)

'''Table: BookShelf'''
* shelfId:
* ShelfName:
* ShelfOrder: (A, T, or U) Representing Author, Title or User Set

'''Table ShelfOrder'''
* shelfId:
* bookId:
* position: (integer representing the position of this book on this shelf)

'''Table: BookText'''
* BookId:
* BookText:

====Data Issues====

* This structure does not provide for books stored as chapters. This structure presumes a book is a single document. That document might have internal chapter indicators, but this structure does not divide the book up.
* This structure makes no provision for the internal storage of images.
* Should we actually store the text of the book in the DB or do we leave the book on the file system and just store a link to it?

There is some point, therefore to consider if in booktext, we want to simply store a plucker file, which CAN contain images and text intermingled.

====Book Format Issues====
* Can javascript on the device natively parse/navigate all of the above list formats?
** '''No.'''
* Can javascript on the device effectively parse/navigate the plucker format (if we settle on this one), or do we need our own format?
** '''Perhaps.''' plucker decoding sources in JAVA at http://www.fbreader.org/downloads.php
* Once we settle on a format, will the device be powerful enough to convert other formats to this one, or will we need a PC app to do the converting?
** on pc app
* Has anyone found a free and open source method to unzip files or data streams in javascript??
** all i have found is a page that refers to the huffman compression technique (http://rumkin.com/tools/compression/compress_huff.php), but i don't know if that is how epub files are zipped and i don't know if we can get our hands on the source.

EBook-Reader

2009-08-13T14:25:46Z

MOE-GUNZ: /* Features Wish List */

===Application description from a users perspective ===
Scene 1: Splash image and 3 buttons:

.. Where I left off ... -- Opens the last book you read at the place you stopped.

.. Bookmarks ... -- opens a list of the books you have bookmarks in and lets you open them to there. -- previews 2 lines above and below bookmark.

... Library ... -- opens a scrollable page of "shelves" Each shelf has a label which is user defined, and each shelf presents the books on it as a coverflow. Books can be moved between shelves by dragging and dropping. Each shelf has a context menu to control order, title, author or user defined. If user defined menu will present shelf as a draggable list instead of a coverflow when you want to re-order books. backswipe returns to coverflow.

in either the bookmarks view, tapping a book takes you to either the bookmark or the title page. upswipe downswipe provide smooth scrolling. Left and right swipe provide page at a time scrolling. Back swipe in gesture offers to bookmark with a dialog and returns to the shelf you came from.

When on a book, top left menu presents presentation options, which can be set book by book or globally. Type face (if I can figure out how), size, leading, justification, colors etc..

Images default to no larger than 1/4 screen, but touch results in lightbox like zoom.

Menu at splash or library offers import, and delete of books. When in a shelf, books can be deleted by dragging them to the recycle.

===Features Wish List===
# on-pc conversion of various formats to pre-compatible format -probably using plucker distiller. Should support
## html
## rde
## doc
## m4b
## pdb (palm-doc)
## pdb (isilo), prc (unencrypted mobipocket)
## prc (encrypted) # lots of people with a ton of fictionwise books want this
## epub [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB]
## plain text
## plucker
# on Pre conversion of html and text docs by download from the cloud.
# Library supports user definable catagories for sorting and shelving
#: Shelves can be user defined to hold any collection of books a reader cares to:
#* By author
#* By Genre
#* By Geography
#* By cover color
#* By Series # very useful to group books in a series together
#: The ''user'' should define the sorting catagories. Shelf design can initially be a scroll list like the Contacts app.
# Book display page is minimally invasive making the most space available to read on as possible
# Typography is bifocal friendly. User definable print sizes, and if possible type faces.
# user defined foreground/background colors for text.
## Sepia
## Night mode
## Adjust screen brightness
# multiple bookmarks per doc.
# shallow menus
# smooth scrolling or page-at-a-time scrolling by gestures.
## plucker style button-based scrolling
## swipe gesture based scrolling
## auto-scrolling with user adjustable speed
### Pause auto-scrolling by tapping gesture area
# support for covers.
# coverflow view of shelves.
# easy rapid sorting of books onto shelves.
# Change text size
# Possibly be able to add books over Wi-Fi
# Copy & Paste words
## Dictionary search implemented

===Data Structure===

'''Table: Catalog'''
Title: string
Author: string
Shelfguid:
CoverImage: Filename
guid: (globally unique ID - a system generated number)

'''Table: Bookmarks'''
guid:
Position: ( an integer, refering to the character in the file at the top of the screen.)

'''Table: Shelves'''
guid:
ShelfName:
Shelving Order: (A, T, or U) Representing Author, Title or User Set

'''Table ShelfOrder'''
Shelfguid:
Bookguid:
Position: (integer representing the position of this book on this shelf)

'''Table: BookText'''
BookGuid:
BookText:

====Data Issues====

* This structure does not provide for books stored as chapters. This structure presumes a book is a single document. That document might have internal chapter indicators, but this structure does not divide the book up.
* This structure makes no provision for the internal storage of images.

There is some point, therefore to consider if in booktext, we want to simply store a plucker file, which CAN contain images and text intermingled.

EBook-Reader

2009-08-13T03:04:51Z

MOE-GUNZ: /* Features Wish List */

===Application description from a users perspective ===
Scene 1: Splash image and 3 buttons:

.. Where I left off ... -- Opens the last book you read at the place you stopped.

.. Bookmarks ... -- opens a list of the books you have bookmarks in and lets you open them to there. -- previews 2 lines above and below bookmark.

... Library ... -- opens a scrollable page of "shelves" Each shelf has a label which is user defined, and each shelf presents the books on it as a coverflow. Books can be moved between shelves by dragging and dropping. Each shelf has a context menu to control order, title, author or user defined. If user defined menu will present shelf as a draggable list instead of a coverflow when you want to re-order books. backswipe returns to coverflow.

in either the bookmarks view, tapping a book takes you to either the bookmark or the title page. upswipe downswipe provide smooth scrolling. Left and right swipe provide page at a time scrolling. Back swipe in gesture offers to bookmark with a dialog and returns to the shelf you came from.

When on a book, top left menu presents presentation options, which can be set book by book or globally. Type face (if I can figure out how), size, leading, justification, colors etc..

Images default to no larger than 1/4 screen, but touch results in lightbox like zoom.

Menu at splash or library offers import, and delete of books. When in a shelf, books can be deleted by dragging them to the recycle.

===Features Wish List===
# on-pc conversion of various formats to pre-compatible format -probably using plucker distiller. Should support
## html
## rde
## doc
## pdb (palm-doc)
## pdb (isilo), prc (unencrypted mobipocket)
## plain text
## plucker
# on Pre conversion of html and text docs by download from the cloud.
# Library supports user definable catagories for sorting and shelving
## By author
## By Genre
# Book display page is minimally invasive making the most space available to read on as possible
# Typography is bifocal friendly. User definable print sizes, and if possibletype faces.
# user defined forground/background colors for text.
## Night mode
# multiple bookmarks per doc.
# shallow menus
# smooth scrolling or page-at-a-time scrolling by gestures.
## plucker style button-based scrolling
## swipe gesture based scrolling
## auto-scrolling with user adjustable speed
# support for covers.
# coverflow view of shelves.
# easy rapid sorting of books onto shelves.

===Data Structure===

'''Table: Catalog'''
Title: string
Author: string
Shelfguid:
CoverImage: Filename
guid: (globally unique ID - a system generated number)

'''Table: Bookmarks'''
guid:
Position: ( an integer, refering to the character in the file at the top of the screen.)

'''Table: Shelves'''
guid:
ShelfName:
Shelving Order: (A, T, or U) Representing Author, Title or User Set

'''Table ShelfOrder'''
Shelfguid:
Bookguid:
Position: (integer representing the position of this book on this shelf)

'''Table: BookText'''
BookGuid:
BookText:

====Data Issues====

* This structure does not provide for books stored as chapters. This structure presumes a book is a single document. That document might have internal chapter indicators, but this structure does not divide the book up.
* This structure makes no provision for the internal storage of images.

There is some point, therefore to consider if in booktext, we want to simply store a plucker file, which CAN contain images and text intermingled.