I see. Is there a place to discuss such technology then? I'd really like
to see Wikipedia available beyond the standard webbrowser. If there was
a way to get out semantic xhtml (or better yet, a custom wikipedia xml
that is really rich), then we could do all sorts of interesting things.
This is the sort of stuff I'm thinking of:
a HitchHiker's style animated interface
local copies of common articles, pre-index with Lucene for full text
searching
ability to add personal or shared annotations (teacher to student, for
example)
convert a series of dates and events into an interactive timeline
render rich media in the client (video, animation, audio, svg, mathml)
reorganize a page to highlight certain content
split pages into smaller pages for ebook readers, wml phones, etc.
All sorts of interesting things become possible if we have some
programmatic way of accessing Wikipedia content.
I'm the author of Flying Saucer, an embeddable
Java XHTML renderer and
I'm interested in making a client which could render Wikipedia content
in interesting ways. (annotations, searching, animation, etc.) I'm
wondering if there are existing resources on this some where.
i'm glad to hear flying saucer is alive!
i'd very much like to use it for preview in my jEdit plugin,
but could not get it to render mediawiki-output some
months ago.
You've heard of it?! That's great. Yeah, we are still working on it.
Release 5 should be coming out any day now and I've already got some
experimental support for incremental layout in a branch. It's starting
to be pretty good.
- J
daniel
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