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Originally Posted by wallcraft
When I select "Follow link" from the menu, all the links on the current page have a number associated with them and I type in the number I want to follow. Note that you also need a way to go back after reading the link.
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This is the way that Hanlin's currently implement hyperlink support for MOBI. An alternative technique is used by OpenInkPot on the Hanlins, and generically by many other devices. Select "Follow link" and the 1st hyperlink on the page is highlighted, use the < and > buttons to move between hyperlinks on the current page (i.e. shift the highlight to another hyperlink), use OK to select the highlighted link or use some key (exit?) to quit the hyperlink operation. This approach may be more compatible with the Adobe Digital Editions SDK, since it is already in use on several other devices. Note that you still need a "go back" option for returning to the main text from a hyperlinked footnote, for example. I think either approach is ok. The number approach might be quicker if there are many links on the page, but the numbers are small and hard to read. A variant of the "numbers" approach would be to build a "Table of Contents" out of the hyperlinks on the page. This would give you a catalogue containing 8 links per (catalogue) page, and would take advantage of the existing "catalogue" navigation code. If there were more than 8 links on the current page, the catalogue would contain multiple pages but multi-page catalogues (TOCs) are already suported.
So far as I can tell, the Hanlins don't support hyperlinks in most ebook formats. Not even in a format like HTML, which only has hyperlinks for navigation (i.e. no external Table of Contents). I'm not sure about support in FB2, because I did not have an example with internal hyperlinks.