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[Divina] A more intuitive order for listing presentation hints

Open anymus opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

I recommend changing the order in which presentation hints are, well, presented... since this could facilitate understanding, in my opinion:

  • continuous (-> high level, linked to story type)
  • fit (-> technically the first operation applied to a given resource: "try to make it fit in the viewport according to its stated fit")
  • overflow (-> "once the resource fits in the viewport, if parts of it lie outside the viewport, decide whether those parts should be made accessible - through scroll or pagination - or not")
  • clipped (-> "you know what, actually clip (or not) all resource parts outside the viewport, whatever the overflow")
  • spread (-> "allow a double-page reading mode")
  • orientation (-> "block reading in only one orientation or not")

Going one step further, I recommend that the properties of a Link Object that are relevant to the divina case be presented in an order consistent with the former:

  • fit (overrides the story fit)
  • clipped (overrides the story clipped)
  • page (whether the resource is a left, center or right page in a double page)

anymus avatar Jul 09 '20 16:07 anymus