issue47 branch: Manybooks plugin done?

[Roberto Alsina]

I have hacked at it and I think it is now about the same as the
feedbooks plugin.

There is a "bug" in paginated listings because their OPDS doesn't
provide "previous page" links, and they will have to be invented,
shouldn't be too hard to do.

Please take a look, and if it's ok I will merge this into integrate.

[Andrés Gattinoni]

It works fine here :-)

[Roberto Alsina]

Could you check the archive.org plugin too? ;-)

[Andrés Gattinoni]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Roberto Alsina
<ral...@netmanagers.com.ar> wrote:
> Could you check the archive.org plugin too? ;-)

It works fine. There's something that's not very clear. When I access
a list (like "Most downloaded books"), I see a progress bar that I
have no idea what is loading... and it takes it a long time to load.
It gets more confusing if I start downloading a new book, because I
get two progress bars.

[Roberto Alsina]

On 2/8/2011 10:33 AM, Andrés Gattinoni wrote:

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Roberto Alsina
<ral...@netmanagers.com.ar> wrote:

> Could you check the archive.org plugin too? ;-)

It works fine. There's something that's not very clear. When I access
a list (like "Most downloaded books"), I see a progress bar that I
have no idea what is loading...

The web page. Archive.org's thumbnails just take forever.

 and it takes it a long time to load.
It gets more confusing if I start downloading a new book, because I
get two progress bars.

The other one is the downloader's and I intend to change it somehow so it doesn't mixes with the webpage one.
No idea what would be a good idea yet.

[Andrés Gattinoni]

2011/2/8 Andrés Gattinoni <andresg...@gmail.com>:

Also many books don't seem to have covers. Maybe we could use the
no-conver image there. If the webkit supports it you can use something
like this:
<img src="cover-url" onerror="this.src='/path/to/noconver.png';" />

[Roberto Alsina]

On 2/8/2011 10:35 AM, Andrés Gattinoni wrote:
> Also many books don't seem to have covers. Maybe we could use the
> no-conver image there. If the webkit supports it you can use something
> like this:
> <img src="cover-url" onerror="this.src='/path/to/noconver.png';" />

Ha, never knew that existed :-)

[Roberto Alsina]

On 2/8/2011 10:35 AM, Andrés Gattinoni wrote:

> Also many books don't seem to have covers. Maybe we could use the
> no-conver image there. If the webkit supports it you can use something
> like this:
> <img src="cover-url" onerror="this.src='/path/to/noconver.png';" />

is there a way to use an image as placeholder and then load the real
one? That would make the layout work better.

[Andrés Gattinoni]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Roberto Alsina
<ral...@netmanagers.com.ar> wrote:
> It gets more confusing if I start downloading a new book, because I
> get two progress bars.
>
> The other one is the downloader's and I intend to change it somehow so it
> doesn't mixes with the webpage one.
> No idea what would be a good idea yet.

I'd rather have a non-blocking dialog displaying the download progress
for ebook downloads (that I can hide or close without affecting the
download progress... and maybe the possibility to cancel the
download). Also in this dialog we could easily display what's being
done (downloading cover, downloading book).

[Roberto Alsina]

Easy to do. How about we show the active downloads in a widget on the left column, below the stores?

[Andrés Gattinoni]

You could try using the lowsrc attribute:
<img src="cover-url" lowsrc="/path/to/noconver.png" />

[Andrés Gattinoni]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Roberto Alsina

Better yet!

[Ramiro Algozino]

2011/2/8 Roberto Alsina <ral...@netmanagers.com.ar>:

+1

That is what I ment when I said "like the Software Center" in a
previus e-mail! :-)

--
Ramiro Algozino

[Roberto Alsina]

This branch is now merged into integrate.