Change size of popup footnote window for iBooks?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

My wish is that someone would develop something similar to the layout NYT uses for Comments - a hide and show scrollable notes side bar, with an option to track the main text automagically. That would make reading heavily end-noted e-books an improvement on reading the same works as p-books.

I suspect that's doable without any major change to the mark up code standards.

BR

Yeah, but...can you imagine how that would work on a small screen?

Hitch

[BetterRed]

I was thinking an e-viewer program that runs on a tablet/laptop/desktop etc, not a an e-reader device or a phone app. Anything would be better than juggling a tablet in one hand to read the text, and a phone in the other to read the notes.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I was thinking an e-viewer program that runs on a tablet/laptop/desktop etc, not a an e-reader device or a phone app. Anything would be better than juggling a tablet in one hand to read the text, and a phone in the other to read the notes.

I know you were. But I confess, as my world tends to be having to CONSTANTLY think about the devices....

I remember when we made those sidebars work, for that one book--and that was a long time ago, mind you; (2014), and I was so pleased, but crapdoodle, that was a cringy mess on a smartphone! LOL...

Hitch

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

My wish is that someone would develop something similar to the layout NYT uses for Comments - a hide and show scrollable notes side bar, with an option to track the main text automagically. That would make reading heavily end-noted e-books an improvement on reading the same works as p-books.

I still think back to that topic in 2014 where we discussed alternate (theoretical) ways of displaying footnotes:

Pop-up notes for iPad

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

I still think back to that topic in 2014 where we discussed alternate (theoretical) ways of displaying footnotes:

Pop-up notes for iPad

And round and round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows...in 5 years, the topic has moved forward not one real iota.

Hitch