{"id":1149,"date":"2008-11-13T02:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T07:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2008-11-13T02:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T07:20:41","slug":"online-catalogue-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/13\/online-catalogue-software","title":{"rendered":"Online catalogue software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lazyweb,<\/p>\n<p>I was browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faces.com.my\/articles\/index.asp#\">FACES<\/a> recently, and noticed that they had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faces.com.my\/members\/emag.asp\">e-magazine<\/a>. Nothing fancy, you have to zoom in and out to read it, making it kind of annoying on a laptop screen (the real experience will come on the 24&#8243; or 30&#8243; screens maybe).<\/p>\n<p>What annoyed me was that the software was Windows only. It seemed to only work in Internet Explorer. These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmaxsia.com\/\">jokers<\/a> make the software (Digital Magazine I believe, it is). Windows only is a silly market to be targeting &#8211; more and more Macs and Linux desktops are becoming a reality. <\/p>\n<p>So, what are the other open source solutions for catalogues, brochures, magazines?<\/p>\n<p>Flash is slow. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ikeaeu.ecweb.is\/09\/mmyg\/\">Ikea catalogue<\/a> is a Flash app. Windows only (with ActiveX?) is a fail. Is there some JavaScript+CSS goo that can make it all work, in-browser? 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