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Submission + - Opera Reader: Paging the web (opera.com)

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on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @10:00AM

howcome writes: "Around 2000 years ago, the Romans developed the codex. Different from scrolls – the previously accepted literary format – the codex had pages that were bound together into what we today call books. Browsers have since brought scrollbars back. Today, Opera released a labs build of its Opera Reader. With a few CSS3 extensions, common web content can be paged. Perhaps all those wonderful books in Project Gutenberg finally will look good in browsers?"

Submission + - OOXML protesters outside ISO meeting

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howcome

on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @08:28PM

howcome writes: "Steve Pepper, the chairman of the committee handling OOXML in Norway called on users all around the world to "Raise a storm of protest!" against OOXML. Steve addressed a crowd of 150 protesters in the streets of Oslo, just outside an ISO meeting. From his speech: "We are not here because we want to discredit the ISO. We are here because we want to defend ISO's integrity ... What we are against is the way in which what has always been an open and democratic organization, where each country has one vote, has been subverted by a large multinational corporation.""

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