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Pictured above is a working prototype that makes reading articles and longer works on the internet more like reading a book. Its content (the entire article, or chapter, or book) is loaded from a database and the front end presents it as pages in a spread.
This started out as an experiment using baseline grids on the web; then on-screen readability. Over the past couple holed-up weeks here at home I dirtied my hands on the emergent technologies of the new internet, specifically HTML5's canvas element, CSS3, javascript libraries such as Mootools and jQuery, and RSS.
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15 Feb 2010 — 12:48pm
This reminds me of Tofu (which I got excited about and downloaded long ago, but never used much).
15 Feb 2010 — 8:13pm
I see this project potentially plugging into Google Reader, or competing with it. I haven't yet determined how the layout engine will handle image scaling, cropping and placement, but I'd like to integrate an algorithm that produces interesting grid-based results, and allow for human input and correction of the design. One feature I'm considering that could appeal to designers is output to PDF in imposed signatures, to create booklets.
20 Feb 2010 — 9:03pm
Looks shnazzy David. Html5 is rad, have you seen http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/ yet?