aron / philipp development blog

The biggest advantage of ebooks over printed ones is – of course – that there are no more fixed pages. Every device can decide how it wants to display the content. With digital books it is possible to have the same excellent user experience on a small smartphone screen as well as on a huge desktop monitor.

But with all these advantages there also come challenges. One is positioning inside the book. So what to do, when you want to save the user’s current reading position, so that he can continue on the same “page” when he comes back? Since the user can read the text on different devices with different screen resolutions and different text settings (e.g. font size settings) you can not simply save “Page 36″.

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So you wanna join the little HTML5 party some of us are having? Great! It’s not that packed yet, quite comfortable actually. And the main gigs haven’t even played yet. So no, you’re not late. Quite one time actually.

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With the never webkit builds on iOS5 and Android ICS finally overflow:scroll works as expected. On iOS you also have the “native” scroll bounce, which is huge IMHO (with bounce I mean the ease when the scrolled viewport reaches the top/end). The app finally feels native, a big step for web apps.

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