Hi Tim,
I think this proposal suffers from the same shortcoming as
LibraryThing's widgets, which is that only one per page is allowed. A
better way may be to use spans and classes and keep the JavaScript in
a library.
I've attached the resulting HTML below; see http://libx.org/gbs/ for a demo.
- Godmar
--- index.html:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://libx.org/gbs/gbsclasses.js"
type="text/javascript"> </script>
<title>Simple Demo for Google Book Classes</title>
</head>
<body>
<span title="ISBN:0743226720" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
<span title="ISBN:0061234001" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
<span title="ISBN:1931798230" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
<span title="ISBN:0596000278" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
<span title="0439554934" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
<span title="OCLC:60348769" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
<span title="LCCN:2004022563" class="gbs-thumbnail"></span>
</body>
</html>
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> (Apologies for cross-posting)
>
> I just posted a simple way to get free book covers into your OPAC. It
> uses the new Google Book Search API.
>
> http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/free-covers-for-your-library-from.php
>
> I think Google has as much cover coverage as anyone. The API is free.
> Most libraries pay. I'm thinking this is a big deal?
>
> We'll probably fancy it up a bit as an add-on to our LibraryThing for
> Libraries service, but the core idea can be implemented by anyone.
>
> I look forward to refinements.
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
>
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