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SlimerJS

Published on January 8, 2014.

SlimerJS Ć© um navegador web com suporte a script (isso permite ser utilizado para realização de testes) que utiliza o Gecko como motor de “renderização” (o mesmo motor do Firefox). Este post Ć© uma breve introdução ao SlimerJS seguindo sua documentação.

Instalação

Baixe o SlimerJS:

$ wget http://download.slimerjs.org/v0.9/0.9.0/slimerjs-0.9.0-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Descomprir o SlimerJS:

$ tar -xvf slimerjs-0.9.0-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 

Adicionar o SlimerJS ao PATH.

Testando

$ cat test.js
console.log('SlimerJS funciona.');
slimer.exit()
$ slimerjs test.js
SlimerJS funciona

Sem slimer.exit() uma janela serĆ” criada.

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LaTeX, HTML e Web

Published on January 6, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

LaTeX é uma linguagem de marcação para o sistema de tipografia TeX que foi criado por Leslie Lamport no início dos anos 80. O HTML é uma linguagem de marcação de hyper-texto proposta por Tim Berners-Lee em 1980, especificado e implementado em 1990 (em conjunto com o que viria a ser a World Wide Web).

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EPUB in Firefox OS

Published on December 20, 2013.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

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I had to thanks Bruno Vilar that lend me the device used for the review.

I have done a review of the EPUB apps for Firefox OS and it support to MathML:

Update in 24/12/2013 thanks to FrƩdƩric Wang: one of the extensions of Firefox to read EPUB is LUCIFOX (it's GPLv3) but it didn't have a version for Firefox OS. One of the Javascript libraries to read EPUB is Epub.js (it's BSD) but it require node.js. And any of this readers support interactive EPUB.

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Firefox OS - MathML in EPUB

Published on December 18, 2013.

This is a review of the Firefox OS EPUB readers app MathML support. For testing I used A First Course in Linear by Robert A. Beezer from IDPF epub-sample repository.

Current there is two EPUB readers app in Firefox Marketplace: EPUBReader and Ab FB2 reader. The Ab FB2 reader won’t be able to load the file.

When open the file it show the cover.

Moving to the second chapter we find the presence of some MathML elements.

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Firefox OS - EPUBReader

Published on December 18, 2013.

This is a review of the Firefox OS EPUBReader app. I can’t find the license of this app but probably it’s similar to the one of EPUBReader Firefox extension that can be found here (it’s not compatible with GPL). For testing this app I used:

It has a very simple home page with a single button in the top that list the files that can be open.

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