An easy way to read both James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the FWEET annotations. This HTML page will load pages from Finnegans Wake (from http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/) and FWEET (http://www.fweet.org) in iframes on the same page. This will work either locally or remotely. Buttons in the upper left and right corners let you go forward or backwards a page. You can also press the left and right arrow keys to go forwards or backwards a page. Links in both sites work, though clicking them may cause the pages to get out of synch.

A version is online here:

http://withhiddennoise.net/tempo/finneganswake.html

If you invoke this with a page number like this:

http://withhiddennoise.net/tempo/finneganswake.html?page=250

it will attempt to go to page 250. The page saves a cookie with the last visited page; if you invoke it without giving it a "?page=", it will start with the last page you visited (or page 3, if you've never used it before).

If you don't like the defaults, you can change the widths of the left and right frames by changing the numbers after "leftwidth" and "rightwidth" respectively:

http://withhiddennoise.net/tempo/finneganswake.html?leftwidth=500&rightwidth=700&page=250

I've tested this in Mac browsers and it works reasonably well; I don't know how it will look on anything else. I am not much of a programmer and this was put together extremely quickly; this could certainly be improved. There are a couple of spots where it runs into trouble – pages that don't exist – but keep pressing the forward or back buttons and you'll get past it. A couple of the wider pages of the Wake cause a little trouble with the default width setting (p. 44 is an example).

I am not responsible, of course, for either the online Finnegans Wake or FWEET, though I'm extremely grateful that both of them are there!