**ePub/eBook reader based on TkHtml3**

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&|Areas| HTML Rendering, Web Development |&
&|Good if student know | Tcl, Javascript, C |&
&|Priority| Low |&
&|Difficulty| Medium |&
&|Benefits to the student| High-quality C/Tcl foundation written by D. Richard Hipp (of [SQLite]) and Dan Kennedy |&
&|Benefits to Tcl| Entry into up and coming e-Publishing domain, Maintenance of [TkHtml3] |&
&|Mentor| George Jempty, comp.lang.tcl |&

'''Project Description'''

An ebook reader incorporating the [TkHtml3] renderer, via the [Hv3] browser, and the DeskML platform (for devising desktop applications from web technologies).
I propose the name 'epubkit' (for which I've acquired the .com and .net domains), and this will not be "just another" ePub reader.  Rather epubKit will strive to innovate in a couple of important ways: 

   1. It will allow any epub file to wrapped with an entire epub reader and distributed as an .exe
   2. It will strive to "disrupt" the epub standard, currently built on [XHTML] 1.1, by supporting [Javascript] widgets within pages.
 
'''References'''

   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
   * http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/
   * http://code.google.com/p/deskml/
   * http://www.chess.com/download/view/stauntons-footsteps ("ebook" prototype using DeskML that incorporates Javascript "PGN" chess widget)


'''Comments'''

The imagination is the only limit as to the applicability of scripting within ePubs, one idea for instance being an in-page recipe converter for applying a ratio such as .75 or 2.0 to the quantities called for within cookbooks.