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iBooks is an e-book application by Apple Inc.

iBooks is an e-book application by Apple Inc. for their iOS operating system and devices. It was announced in conjunction with the iPad on January 27, 2010.

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What HTML5 features are available for Dashcode widgets in iBooks?

With the new iBooks Author tool, you can create e-books for the iPad. The format allows you to embed HTML widgets created with Dashcode. The resulting files can be distributed outside of the app store, similar, but probably easier (because it is…
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Style anchors in iBooks epub

Is it possible to change the color and other CSS properties of anchors in iBooks epubs? The color property doesn't react at all, while I do get background-color change on normal and hover link state (which activates on tap). The :hover…
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Is it possible to access the iBooks PDF files from my custom application

I read and read Blogs in google but still could not draw the conclusion regarding,Can we upload the iBooks PDF files through the custom application? some says "No, there is currently no way to access this information" I have a application like…
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Dynamically reload UIPageViewController after dataSource changed

so I'm trying to create an ibooks-like reader and I need to update the contents of the UIPageViewController dynamically after I get the data from the webservice. For a long series of reasons I have to instantiate it at the beginning and then update…
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What javascript works as expected in epub using iBooks?

I am writing a footnote popup tooltip for epubs at the moment and I'm frustrated with the lack of documentation available on what javascript works and doesn't work inside epub, using iBooks specifically. In my experience, using jQuery, doing a basic…
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Adding PDF to iBooks by code

I was recently asked if I could code a simple IPhone/IPad app that: Checks an FTP server for changes to a PDF file (easy) Downloads the lastest PDF (easy) Adds or replace the file on iBooks (hmm...) I have tried to find any code that deals with…
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iOS iBooks like store animation

Anyone know how Apple does the transition to the store in the iBooks app? I know they are using a Modal View Controller with the UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal transition style set but I don't see how they are showing the "depth" of the…
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How to show Book Opening and loading animation as in iBooks?

I am trying to show a book opening animation as in iBooks. Any inputs will be helpful.
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How does iBooks do this?

I am currently displaying text in a uiwebview. However, I would like to allow a user to select text and perform some action with the selected text (google it). Apple has done this sort of thing with iBooks. When you click on a word you can choose to…
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Javascript firing intermittently when turning page in iBooks

I'm trying to add the ability to play audio in my ebook and for the user to be able to pause and start this if they want. I can do this in javascript by controlling a standard HTML5 audio tag on a page but when the user turns the page I want the…
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Does iBooks support localStorage in the ePUB format?

I'm implementing a JavaScript program in the ePUB XML-based digital book format which uses localStorage. I'm confusing about the situation whether iBooks supports localStorage. Some version supports, some not.
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Scrolling in a HTML widget

I've made a webpage that has an 4000px wide background and in Chrome and safari on Windows, Mac and iPad it scrolls nice. I can scroll to the left, the top and the right with no problems, just like you would expect it to be. But when I convert this…
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rounded corners on UIPageViewController

I was wondering if anyone was ever successful in changing the corners of an UIPageViewController (the fancy book turning animation of iBooks) to rounded corners? I tried this but to no avail: [self.notebookPages setViewControllers:viewControllers…
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CSS3 Animation with different images in each frame

I'm attempting to perform a CSS animation, where a number of images are cycled through. I appreciate that normally one would use a sprite (and doing so works with this code), however as I wish to use this animation in iBooks, I have to keep to a 2…
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How can I animate like open book in iBook?

I want to click image and open like when we click on book in bookshelf in iBook. Just simple flip , not to curl.Animate like we open hard-cover book :) Could you guide me what call is that ?? or Could you guide me how to do that ?
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