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momijizukamori) wrote2021-07-02 03:50 pm
momijizukamori) wrote2021-07-02 03:50 pm
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Ao3 Reader - Alpha 3
This is now almost at the 'beta' stage, AKA the point where I start posting about it other places, though I have a small number of very troublesome bugs left, and I'd like to confirm that it doesn't turn into hot garbage on non-Glo devices before I send it out into the wild.
Changelog:
- Custom logo, scripts have now been renamed to 'Ao3Reader' instead of 'Plato'
- Tag navigation now works properly, both within indexes and works
- Second page of tags and summaries now available - sort of (see known issues)
- Won't crash if network unavailable or trying to load bad work index urls!
- Display settings for reader now save/load properly
- Saving index views to favorites via the star icon now works! You can also add them manually in Settings.toml - see the existing ones for an example
- Work index items now show chapter count
- You can now switch between long view (title, author, fandoms, and as many tags as will fit) and short view (title, author, fandoms) by setting work_display in Settings.toml to either "Long" or "Short"
- Page progress more accurately reflects position in the work (it was being calculated off the entire HTML size, which includes a pile of JS/layout bits that get thrown out)
Known Issues:
- Jump-to-page in the work index view does not work and will instead just hang weirdly
- When the about work overlay goes to multiple pages, it just... stops rendering partway down the second page? The data is there - if tags spill into that area you have invisible touch-targets for them - but they're not being drawn to the frame buffer for ?? reasons ??
- I've found at least one work that doesn't generate it's pages properly - I strongly suspect it's a combo of weird HTML and something in the underlying HTML engine (which is inherited untouched from Plato), but if you find works where the displayed text cuts off weirdly (particularly if it seems to be generating chapterlist entries for points past that), please drop me a link to the work so I have more data.
Install instructions remain as before (but look for 'Ao3 Reader' instead of 'Plato')
Changelog:
- Custom logo, scripts have now been renamed to 'Ao3Reader' instead of 'Plato'
- Tag navigation now works properly, both within indexes and works
- Second page of tags and summaries now available - sort of (see known issues)
- Won't crash if network unavailable or trying to load bad work index urls!
- Display settings for reader now save/load properly
- Saving index views to favorites via the star icon now works! You can also add them manually in Settings.toml - see the existing ones for an example
- Work index items now show chapter count
- You can now switch between long view (title, author, fandoms, and as many tags as will fit) and short view (title, author, fandoms) by setting work_display in Settings.toml to either "Long" or "Short"
- Page progress more accurately reflects position in the work (it was being calculated off the entire HTML size, which includes a pile of JS/layout bits that get thrown out)
Known Issues:
- Jump-to-page in the work index view does not work and will instead just hang weirdly
- When the about work overlay goes to multiple pages, it just... stops rendering partway down the second page? The data is there - if tags spill into that area you have invisible touch-targets for them - but they're not being drawn to the frame buffer for ?? reasons ??
- I've found at least one work that doesn't generate it's pages properly - I strongly suspect it's a combo of weird HTML and something in the underlying HTML engine (which is inherited untouched from Plato), but if you find works where the displayed text cuts off weirdly (particularly if it seems to be generating chapterlist entries for points past that), please drop me a link to the work so I have more data.
Install instructions remain as before (but look for 'Ao3 Reader' instead of 'Plato')