Javascript story?

[Andreas Jung]

Hi there,

is there some (planned) support for Javascript in Vivliostyle?

There are various usecases where Javascript support would be very handy.

Andreas

[Kawakubo Toru]

Hi, thank you for your feedback!

> On 2015/12/08, at 3:46, Andreas Jung <zopyx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> is there some (planned) support for Javascript in Vivliostyle?

We definitely want to support JavaScript in near future, but we haven’t determined when we will add that.
I think there are several patterns of how we want to use JavaScript with Vivliostyle:

- Pre-process the document before page layout by Vivliostyle, e.g. automatically generating some contents like table of contents, index etc.
- Controlling interaction between the user and the document on screen after page layout by Vivliostyle.js, e.g. handling mouse events etc.
- Injecting some custom procedure into middle of Vivliostyle’s layout process, i.e. a plugin for Vivliostyle

We will work on those features one by one and let you know when ready.


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Toru Kawakubo （川久保 亮）
Vivliostyle Inc.
http://vivliostyle.com

[Andreas Jung]

Am Freitag, 11. Dezember 2015 06:44:01 UTC+1 schrieb Kawakubo Toru:

Hi, thank you for your feedback!

> On 2015/12/08, at 3:46, Andreas Jung <zopyx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> is there some (planned) support for Javascript in Vivliostyle?

We definitely want to support JavaScript in near future, but we haven’t determined when we will add that.
I think there are several patterns of how we want to use JavaScript with Vivliostyle:

- Pre-process the document before page layout by Vivliostyle, e.g. automatically generating some contents like table of contents, index etc.

Standard support jQuery and related add-ons is likely a must.

JS templates could be used to generate TOC, listings etc.

Support for add-ons providing additional presentation elements like charts would be handy

- Controlling interaction between the user and the document on screen after page layout by Vivliostyle.js, e.g. handling mouse events etc.

I don't see much usecases for this.

 

- Injecting some custom procedure into middle of Vivliostyle’s layout process, i.e. a plugin for Vivliostyle

Hot topics are always handling of page breaks, overlong tables, oversized images. For example support for some adaptive image sizing would be very handy.

Andreas

 

[Florian Rivoal]

On Dec 15, 2015, at 04:01, Andreas Jung <zopyx...@gmail.com> wrote:

Am Freitag, 11. Dezember 2015 06:44:01 UTC+1 schrieb Kawakubo Toru:

Hi, thank you for your feedback! 

> On 2015/12/08, at 3:46, Andreas Jung <zopyx...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> is there some (planned) support for Javascript in Vivliostyle? 

We definitely want to support JavaScript in near future, but we haven’t determined when we will add that. 
I think there are several patterns of how we want to use JavaScript with Vivliostyle: 

- Pre-process the document before page layout by Vivliostyle, e.g. automatically generating some contents like table of contents, index etc. 

Standard support jQuery and related add-ons is likely a must.

JS templates could be used to generate TOC, listings etc.

Support for add-ons providing additional presentation elements like charts would be handy

Yes. The way we're thinking about building this, anything that would work in a regular web page would work here as well.

- Controlling interaction between the user and the document on screen after page layout by Vivliostyle.js, e.g. handling mouse events etc. 

I don't see much usecases for this.

Here's just one example to get your imagination going. You could have an interactive chart in the document (see here fore examples: http://www.highcharts.com/). You don't only need to put it in the document, you also need javascript to work for the interaction.

- Injecting some custom procedure into middle of Vivliostyle’s layout process, i.e. a plugin for Vivliostyle 

Hot topics are always handling of page breaks, overlong tables, oversized images. For example support for some adaptive image sizing would be very handy.

Absolutely.

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Florian RIVOAL

取締役、Chief Commercial Officer

Vivliostyle