sonicaa
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Java developer in the mind; tree-hugger at heart!
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Comment · 7 years ago
Chrome/OSX should work normally. I'm sorry about this. :-(
Can we look into the errors on your browser's console?
> zoom
Quick note: As a real reader will you prefer to pinchzoom on every page of the book or scale the book just once from the settings panel and be good to go?
> scroll
Scrolling is a no-go for books. My cofounder has written about this at length here: https://bubblin.io/concerns
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We are aware about an issue that prevents us from using pinch features to scale content correctly on iOS Safari. The bug is raised with Apple for this and I'm hoping they'll catch up on it soon. :-)
Comment · 7 years ago
hi! Sonica, CTO of Bubblin Superbooks here!
> I've also run into instances where the preview has text cut off even at 100% zoom.
Which [device, os and browser] are you on?
> I'm reliant on them being always on and still around 10+ years later…
These books are hosted using a service-worker, and will work even if our service goes offline for sometime or your device disconnects from the Internet.
Comment · 7 years ago
Have you seen https://bookiza.io?
Comment · 7 years ago
I've added Codepen's MIT License [0] to your name to credit you correctly at the right spot on our CSS. New build will be rolled out in a couple of hours so kindly check back again.
If however you're still uncomfortable about us using this experiment without a coffee, do let me know and we'll remove it from Bubblin completely. Just kidding, we'll sponsor you a coffee as well ;-)
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you! I'm glad you like it. :-)
Comment · 7 years ago
> I also feel like picture/children ebooks books don't make much sense…
Have you seen this two books?:
https://bubblin.io/book/abcd-animal-book-by-judith-neumann/1
https://bubblin.io/book/ladakh-by-satie-sharma/1
I've personally read Judith's book on animated ABCs to toddlers in our community. In general, I'd want to optimize for attention span when it comes to kids--Bubblin helps with that. Most importantly, kids are already on the iPad, so it makes sense to go take it where they are.
Thank you for sharing the beeline technique. We can probably provide it as one of the layout template options! :-)
Comment · 8 years ago
Spritz won't work for books with illustrations. It's a complete no-go for photo-books and children's books, for example.
Comment · 8 years ago
We load the entire book in one shot and offline it immediately using a service-worker [0].
Feel free to test it! Bookmark the url and turn off the Internet. Now close the tab, hard refresh or restart your computer if you want to test that far. Reopen your browser and open the bookmarked url and the book will open up on the last page you were on and work normally with full UX/UI without Internet connection.
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...