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After ADE was implemented and a few wrinkles were ironed out of the initial release I sent this email on 8/14/2009
The ADE implementation is vastly better that the previous ePUB support.
However, Here are a few features/bugs that need to be fixed in the
latest ADE. (Some of these should also apply to PDF mode)
1. the recovery from a keyboard lock should refresh the screen.
2. No one likes the jump in font sizes. The one marked little should be
medium and the jumps are too big. (Having configurable font sizes would
be one nice way to fix this)
3. There need to be a menu item for "follow link". The lack of links is
a serious deficit as compared to MOBI and to the competitions
implementation of ePUB using ADE. (There should really be a return to
previous page as well but as you are running out of space on the menu
bar the goto page button could pre-fill the previous page in the box
which would erase if the user entered data.)
4. Many people don't like the page numbers on the right margin as they
interfere with the reading. There should be an option to move them to
the bottom bar. Note that there are times when the page number is
different than the current page.
5. The bottom bar is missing but that is actually good. You can always
press the ok to see the information on the bar and ok again to remove
it. However the currentpage/totalpage entry is black. It should be white
like it is in all the other formats to make it easier to read.
6. JPG images are zoomed when the text is zoomed but when they get too
big you can't see them all. To fix this there needs to be a pan mode.
What I would suggest is that if you hold down the zoom key for two
seconds you would enter image zoom mode. The mode would continue until
you hit the exit key. While in this mode the behavior would be similar
to the description I previously sent for the images display. The 4 arrow
keys 2 on the sides and two on the bottom would behave as pan keys
moving the image in the direction pushed by nearly a screen. The zoom
key would continue to work with the image to size it but when exit was
tapped the screen would return to the text zoom level and the image
would return to that zoom as well.
7. The info command should show more meta data such as genre and
description.
8. Think about having configuration items override the CSS settings.
Margins is a big one. Often the default margin is inappropriate for this
screen size. Inter paragraph spacing on/off and paragraph first line
indent would be good items as well. There are a few others such as the ability to choose left justification vs full justification.
9. My previous suggestion of using button 6 in the mobi style should be
implemented to increase the number of book marks. i.e. pressing 6 would
continue to add bookmarks and press and hold would allow selection by
having multiple pages.
10. Tables - tables can be wider than the display. To handle this when a table is encounter the next page button should pan the table to the right until the table edge is display. Another push of the next page would move to the left to display additional lines of the table with the process repeating until the full table is displayed. While inside the table the previous button should move left in the table reversing the action of the next page button. If there is more data on the page beyond the table then exiting the table by using next page to reach the end should display this additional data. Of course, once the end of the table is reached the next/prev buttons should revert to normal operation.
That should be enough for now.
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