Ideo/avocado. Mobilizer. Ipad - Why are some widget elements not showing up when embedded in iBook. The iBooks 2.0 built-in widgets. The built-in widgets that provide the brunt of the interactive features in iBook’s textbook format do not use javascript in any way.
Some additional reading before we dive into my short post… Daniel Glazman (CSS working group’s co-chair) wrote about iBooks Author and the format it generates: “iBooks Author, a nice tool but…” “Apple (re-)invented the Web totally incompatible with the Web. “Turns out you aren’t allowed to sell the books you create in iBooks Author outside of iBooks: “The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA”.The Vook blog notices some of the same things I have: “iBooks 2 and iBooks Author: Another opportunity & headache”. “This is a proprietary file format that only plays in iBooks (edit: it’s not quite epub2 and it’s not quite epub3, nor is it quite XHTML5—plus the widgets are iBooks built-in components rather than open standards JS).”Updated, 2 February 2012: I’ve clarified my perspective here: iBooks widgets – to javascript or not to javascript.
iBooks Author: Widgets overview. Ripple Emulator Community.