Road Map

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This document outlines major stops on the way to Readium 1.0.0, this will be the first non-beta release (version 0.1.0 was the first beta).

EPUB3 Features

Media Overlays

Implement support for media overlays

Triggers

Implement support for the ePUB3 triggers feature

• Chrome should do almost all of the heavy lifting for us on this, it may already work

CFI Links

Implement support for ePUB Canonical Fragment Identifiers

• Good working support for this will be necessary for other features (eg bookmarks)

MathML

ePUB3 now supports embedded MathML

• Use MathJAX to add support for MathML (done)

Fixed Layout Documents

Implement support for Fixed-Layout Documents

CSS Page Templates

Implement Support for CSS Page Templates

Extended Features

• Dictionaries
• Indexes

Demo Content / Features

• Inkling equiv in EPUB 3
• iBooks Author equiv in EPUB 3

User Features

• Find
• Search (find all)
• Text selection
• Bookmarks/annotations
• Page transitions
• Content acquisition (OPDS)
• User prefs - font, font size, color, margins, day/night, etc
• Register .epub file extension with system OS's
• Pref for whether EPUB's auto-added to library on open done
• Drag & drop EPUB's into library view
• Pref to disable JS in EPUB content

Production Tool Features

• Unpacked EPUB - local (Done and staged for 2.0)
• Unpacked EPUB - over network
• Validation
• Simulator mode (reading device profiles)

Global Language Support Features / Internationalization

• Internationalization framework - UX
• Internationalization - multiple languages in UX
• Support for ePUBs with vertical writing (Japanese typography)
• Internationalization of the UI

Accessibility Features

• Screen reader support - content
• Screen reader support - UX

Developer Features

We want to build a community of developers and thus need to work to make Readium a great project to contribute to

• A Dev blog with release notes etc.(done)
• Architecture documentation
• Unit testing framework/process (Jasmine is now in place)

Configurations

Eventually we would like to get readium running on mobile platforms

• Chrome extension on Mac/Win
• Web-served (Done here)
• Android / iOS (via phonegap)
• Distribution via Chrome Web Store (likely won't happen now that regions are being disabled)

Zip Library

We are currenly unzipping content in Javascript, this is slow and a source of bugs

• Use the NaCl zlib port (in progress via Ben Anderman)