As we evaluate the development priorities for new AZARDI features we always get caught between ePub3 spec features and useful user features. Except for Fixed Layout which is on the anvil at the moment, there are not a lot of compelling market driven reasons at present to pursue ePub3 obscurities and specialities such as CFI.
What we have been asked for is full-text search. So search floated to the top of the development tree.
We have search in our ECMS products, but we needed to start from scratch for this job. Enter DASE - Direct Access Search Engine. It had to be clippy, and work online and offline anywhere.
The IDPF announced the Fixed Layout specification on the 15th March 2012. Here it is 17th March 2012 and we are able to have the first IDPF sample fixed layout ePub3 books up for viewing on AZARDI Online.
It was relatively straight-forward to map the IDPF specification to the AZARDI fixed layout method as the match was very close. There are only so many ways fixed layout can be done!
We have also uploaded the IDPF sample version of Moby Dick with two chapters containing SMIL overlays for those interested in this area of the ePub3 feature list.
