[Wikisource-l] Back to the Scroll

[Magnus Manske]

Hi all,

after some discussion on wikitech-l, I made a Google Books-like
display demo for wikisource content. It should work on any multipage
djvu or PDF. To link to it, you'll need:
* The file name for the original (needs to be on commons)
* The total number of pages (couldn't find a way to get that
automatically anywhere...)
* The page to start on

Thus armed, you can construct a URL like this:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/book2scroll/index.html?file=Transactions_of_the_Geological_Society,_1st_series,_vol._1.djvu&pages=478&startpage=82

The default parameter-less URL will fall back on the DNB vol. 11:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/book2scroll/index.html

Note that this is HTML/CSS/JS only; no toolserver backend
script/database is involved.

Awaiting onslaught of critique,
Magnus