Discussion of eBook feature set/Actual

Browsing View

• Bookmarks
  • Shown as folder corner
  • Toggle using mouse cursor
• Annotations
  • Use color-coded icon
    • Confined to single column
    • Hover over column (w/ no icon) shows icon / hilites block
    • Clicking icon shows popup to add/view
• Font Size Control (Yet to be defined)

TOC (Hyper Zoom) View

• Four levels
  • View all (headers/contents/etc.)
  • All headers + first line of text
  • All headers
  • H1 headers only
• Annotation icons are collapsed by header
  • If you've annotated, your icon is on top
  • Otherwise, most annotated user is on top
  • Cluster if there's multiple (horizontal? cluster?)
• Bookmarked state is shown next to header
• Each header is focusable

Section Scroll View

• Quickly move between next/prev sections
• Menu for fast movement/view

eBook View

• Broken up into two columns
  • Each column is a semi-page
    • Done by IFrames
    • Right-hand column is current
    • Left-hand column starts as blank
  • Page is shown in the header
    • Either defined by the publisher (p. 17)
    • Defined by current (Sub) Section
  • Must watch font size to determine column height

• Bookmarks
  • Shown as a folded corner
  • Add/Remove using 'B'

• Navigation
  • Up (Prev Focus)
  • Down (Next Focus)
  • Left (Prev Page)
  • Right (Next Page)
  • A (Perform Action on Currently Focused Item)
    • Show Annotation (Popup)
    • Visit Link
    • View Footnote (Popup)
    • Headers are focusable too
  • B (Add bookmark to current section)
  • X (Hyper Zoom)
  • Y (Section Scroll)
    • Each are modifier keys to Up/Down
    • Hitting Up moves menu up
    • Menu centered in screen (w/ up/down arrows)
    • See the effect in the background
    • Release of button hides menu
    • Hitting the button shows menu briefly

Editing

• Editing
  • Inline-Level
    • Bold
    • Italic
    • Underline
    • Mono
    • Links
      • Has contextual menu
    • All selections expand to the word boundary
    • Contextual menu on selection
      • Hover to preview change
      • Option is dull until active
      • Display context in things that have style or selection
      • Selection within style (undoing) effects only selection
    • Auto-convert stars, etc. on enter/space
    • Can undo last action
  • Block-Level
    • Blockquote
      • Hit tab at start to make it
      • Hit backspace or shift-tab at start to un-indent
      • Triple enter ends block
    • Paragraph
    • Raw
    • Lists
    • Headings
      • No endlines
      • Kill all inline styles
      • Contextual (H1, H1 or H2, etc.)
      • Can write =...=, triggered on enter
    • Can select block by clicking margin
    • If block is selected, show contextual menu
      • (includes inline styles, inclusive)
    • Check for characters on start of line
      • Auto-make bullet, order-list, Headers