Comments on: Geo-aware ebook demo

By: lordmax

lordmax — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:39:54 +0000

I’ve tried geo localization with Opera and result is an error’s pop-up :

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ReferenceError: Security violation
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obviously google geoloc work fine.

By: JavaScript and interactivity in iBooks : Threepress Consulting blog

JavaScript and interactivity in iBooks : Threepress Consulting blog — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:36:10 +0000

[...] from accessing remote URLs. This means that ebooks that interact with remote data, like the geo-aware ebook, do not work. Interestingly, this is one of the restrictions that Baldur Bjarnason suggested might [...]

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:59:01 +0000

Anders, that would be very similar to how DAISY accessible ebooks work: http://www.daisy.org/ (and DAISY is already closely aligned with EPUB).

By: Anders Jakobsen

Anders Jakobsen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:04:50 +0000

This got me thinking…

HTML5 also makes it easy to include audio in the code. Could you make an audio guide in the of a ePub book, where your location triggered different audio files to be played?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:11:20 +0000

Liza, it would probably suffice to change the viewport meta tag so that width was hardcoded to 600. Or even remove the meta tag altogether?

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:15:46 +0000

Right, at some point I may change it to be resizable, or I would be happy to post an updated version if someone else modified it.

By: laura

laura — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:18:56 +0000

I wanted to try this on my geo-aware and very mobile iPhone, but unfortunately I’m not able to resize the page in mobile Safari to match the screen size, and therefore I only see a small fraction of the page. Bummer; it seems like a clever little demo.

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:49:08 +0000

I haven’t, I’ll check it out! And thanks for teaching me the fancier-sounding name “locative texts.”

By: jodischneider.com/blog » Locative texts

jodischneider.com/blog » Locative texts — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:07:54 +0000

[...] Liza Daly shared an epub demo which pulls in the reader’s location, and makes decisions about the character’s actions [...]

By: Jodi Schneider

Jodi Schneider — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:47:52 +0000

Have you played ‘Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill’ by any chance? This is a location-based game/tour set in Boston. It’s been on my iPhone for awhile, but I’m in Boston so rarely it hasn’t bubbled to the top yet.