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Month: March, 2010

CSS columns for ebook text

Of all the problems I needed to solve to develop the mobile version of Ibis Reader, I didn’t think I’d need to solve pagination. “WebKit supports CSS3 columns, I don’t have to worry about it.”
My idea was that I’d make the viewport as wide as a single column but force at least 2 columns, and [...]

Slide-making for the artistically-impaired

I always go a little overboard when making slides for my presentations. I think it’s a form of procrastination. But I’m not a designer and have only limited Photoshop skills, so I have to rely on some tricks.
For my TOC Ignite presentation on Ibis Reader, I used many now-obligatory photos found by searching Creative-Commons-licensed content [...]

Ibis Reader launched

Though it’s been live for a few days now, Threepress is happy to formally announce that our HTML5 mobile web reader Ibis Reader has launched.
It was exciting to get some favorable coverage from the Wired Gadget Lab blog almost immediately:

Ibis reader is an e-book reading application that does everything that you’d expect an iPhone [...]