AZARDI Online User Guide
AZARDI Online Alpha Release
This is a Alpha release of AZARDI Online. If you use this version, expect functionality bugs and cross platform inconsistencies. Before you use it on a tablet read the known device limitations section below.
AZARDI Online application
AZARDI Online is designed to allow all ePub flow content to be displayed on all browsers, on all devices at every viewport size, where devices have standards compliant browsers. The user has control of the presentation experience and can optimize the content presentation for their viewport size and their personal preferences.
AZARDI Online and fixed layout
AZARDI Online support fixed layout display if the target device has the correct screen size. iPad and Kindle Fire fixed layout emulators are in development to allow all content to be displayed. This will not include iAuthor created books.
Shortcut Keys
Navigation
Next Page Right Arrow or PgUp
Previous Page Left Arrow or Pg Dn
Next Section Shift Right Arrow or Shift PgUp
Previous Section Shift Left Arrow or Shift PgDn
Hide/Show Table of Contents Shift+T
Close Reader and Save settings Shift+X
Audio
The audio icon is unmuted when a page contains SMIL Audio overlays. The following controls can then be used.
Audio play/pause Ctl+Spacebar (Toggle)
Stop audio Shift+Spacebar
Play paragraph Click paragraph in Stop mode
Continue from paragraph Click paragraph in Play mode
Personalization Interface
Personalization Shift+U to hide/show the Personalization options.
Font-face selection. Not working in this version.
Font size. Click the +/- buttons to change the font size.
Margins. Click the +/- buttons to change the margins.
Line-height. Click the +/- buttons to change the line-height
Text-alignment. Toggles text alignment between justified and align-left.
Hyphenation. Toggles hyphenation on and off. Does not work on all browsers.
Page flow. Scroll mode, single page, two column page, three column page, four column page.
Column Rules. Toggle column rules on and off.
Reset. Resets the interface to a standard two page column view.
Platform and Browser limitations.
AZARDI Online works on the following browsers. Note there may be buggy or erratic behaviour occassionally.
Right-to-Left is laid out correctly but paging is still left to right in this version.
Desktop
Firefox 8+. All functionality works. It will probably work on older versions back to 4, but full testing is yet to be carried out.
Google Chrome 16+. All functional works. It will probably work on older versions but full testing is yet to be carried out.
Safari 5.1.2+. All functionality works. It will probably work on any 5.1 version but full testing is yet to be carried out.
Opera 11+. All functionality works. Column balancing behaves differently to other browsers giving some strange flows in multi-column modes with short pages. Full testing is yet to be carried out.
Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9. All work identically to Google Chrome if the Google Frame plugin is installed. Without this plugin nothing will work in these versions due to lack of standards support (earlier versions) and lack of CSS-3 feature support.
Internet Explorer 10 Beta. This has not been tested.
Mobile
No screen navigation touch events are supported yet. configuration events work.
iPad Safari. Use scroll mode only. Pagination does not work. paragraph tap audio has not been handled.
Android 3- Google Browser. Use scroll mode only. Pagination does not work.
Android 4+ Chrome Browser. This is expected to work.
Android FENNEC (Firefox) Browser. This is the best All features work.