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Originally Posted by SigilBear
The feature I'm working is designed not just for readers who want to learn the details about images but for me to help keep track of sources and permissions during the design phase.
I have a section named Image Permissions. Every image in my epub will have an ID and will be linked to some text in the Image Permissions section with a matching ID.
The text in Image Permissions will in turn be linked back to the original image so readers don't lose their place.
The simplest way to do the first part is to simply link the image. The return links in the Image Permissions section will also be images - simple triangular arrows.
But if I can't link images in Kindle, then I may be forced to add some sort of caption. But I'm going to try and create a simple text arrow - perhaps in a span with a colored background - and use CSS to lift it up a bit so it's superimposed on the image. For example, every image might have a tiny arrow in the lower right corner.
I read somewhere that use can use some sort of popups in Kindle, iBooks or maybe both. But I think it would be better to have my sources and permissions listed in plain view in a special section rather than bury them in popups.
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Do not assume nor rely upon "popups" in Kindle. That's for footnotes, and only footnotes, and it's only functional on the KF8 eInks. I just had a PM here from someone who was frustrated b/c they wanted to use that functionality for something not completely different than what you're talking about, and they wanted to remove the "Footnote" heading, on the popup. I told them that they couldn't, and you wouldn't be able to do that either.
The problem surrounding "linking" images is just this: when you tap an image in Kindle, it zooms. It's not expecting a link, or link behavior. That doesn't mean, AFAIR, that it's not doable; it's that the reader's use behavior isn't to tap the image and then hold it DOWN, to get the linked behavior. You know what I mean?
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