Here's what I'm thinking. The ebook text would be in a template designed to display the chapters in an iframe with accompanying iframe so reader can toggle between glossary or index. The text area will be approximately 6" x 9" (or smaller height with scroll bar).
This ebook has documents, samples and templates in Word for the reader to print or complete. They measure 8.5" x 11" and would not be viewed properly with narrower margins. The templates will not be secured or print restricted.
What is the best way to provide access to these files in their full 8.5" x 11" format:
1) open in new browser without the css iframe template? 2) open in same browser without the css template? 3) open in MS Word as an embedded file? 4) download from internet? 5) other?
Any tips to make this work simply would be greatly appreciated.
Posted on: 12:15 am on March 19, 2007
Storyman
Hi HuskerMark,
IMHO dump Iframes and go strictly with CSS. Provide seperate print and screen stylesheets.
If I understand your objective the content will be displayed in a 6X9 inch area. You want the user to be able to toggle the screen between content and glossary. In that case use the hover option to swap out the displays.
Posted on: 4:19 am on March 19, 2007
HuskerMark
My original plan was to use CSS for all the pages, but iframes provides the ability to have a 6x9 text box in a 6x5 display area. That is truly what I am trying to accomplish.
In searching the internet, I see lots of free coding to create this type of HTML text area. There seem to be two types:
Using divisions: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style> #scrollArea{width:420px;height:280px;overflow:auto;}</style></head>
<body> <div id="scrollArea"> <p>usa li sam vocabularium. Li lingues differe solmen in li grammatica, li pronunciation e li plu commun vocabules. Omnicos directe al desirabilitá de un nov lingua franca: on refusa continuar payar custosi .</p></div></body></html>
or using "read only" text boxes
<textarea id="blah" readonly="readonly" rows="7" cols="53">Ma quande lingues coalesce, li grammatica del resultant lingue es plu simplic e regulari quam ti del coalescent lingues. Li nov lingua franca va esser plu simplic e regulari quam li existent Europan lingues. It va essertam simplic quam Occidental: in fact, it va esser Occidental. A un Angleso it va semblar un simplificat Angles, quam un skeptic Cambridge amico dit me que Occidental es.</textarea>
Any thoughts as to which solution is best or how to determine which to choose? The text area will be placed in a frame on the template.
Now I need to look into what Storyman was saying about hover buttons...
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