HTML5 mobile book catalog

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Project aim is to create a HTML5 web application book catalog for mobile devices.

Technology platform is;

Some proprietary tags will be needed;

Will need a browse by;

Will need to search on

Images will need to be retrieved from Google Books and/or Amazon, though will not be able to be cached (size limits of HTML apps).

Covers will need to be marked as FALLBACK in the cache manafest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cache_manifest_in_HTML5. I'll need to determine if they will be cached at all and accessiable offline (if cached)?
Google Books has an API http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/v1/using.html. Will need get to an application API key and read the T&Cs http://code.google.com/apis/books/terms.html
Google can search on ISBN, but they do have their own "volume id" which directly retreives the volume. Best to use that if possiable.
Images can be obtained from here http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/v1/reference.html#resource_volumes, in partic the setting volumeInfo.imageLinks.thumbnail.

A example book XML is attached to this page.

All functionality will need to be implemented in Javascript.

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Bevan Coleman,

18 Jul 2011, 05:57

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