I dont know what I should call these updates ….. by Date? Part xx? Oh Well I will just have to see what fits when it comes time to do this again 
Olearia is now nearing 1.0! Yay finally!
so far we have
- Playback for 2.02, 2002, 2005 books with audio Content
- A new window showing the text content of the Book
- a window displaying the information about the book.
- Automatic playback via the SMIL file (finer grain control of the audio segments and their tags)
- User navigation through the Control file (ncc.html, .ncx) of Levels and reading elements
- Saving of current playback position
I know it doesnt sound all that different at this stage feature wise from the 0.9.5.1 release, but trust me this is a lot simpler to add a feature than the previous version was ever going to be!
Still to come
Sooner Rather than later
- Fast Forward and rewind across audio segments (basically just transferring code from framework into the plugins
- Adding Support for Text only books
- Support for BookShare and NIMAS formats. (Currently they will open and information can be shown but no playback)
- Along with the text only support will come over-ride of pre-recorded audio in full Audio+text books allowing the user to have the book read back to them with their choice of synthesized voice (great for books with synthesized audio that is not correctly pronounced)
Later Rather than Sooner
- bookmarking and Go To functions (not sure how useful the Go To will be but time will tell)
- possibly a structure window (Tree?) showing the table of Contents and allowing a user to choose a playback point from there.
- support for skippable items in the smil file
- Ui Enhancements like a Path type browser showing the current location in the book.
- Other UI enhancements like audio position tracking ala iTunes
Oh Yeah there will eventually be plugins available for Encrypted RFB&D Books and potentially ePub books to. These will not be open source.
After All that (quite possibly before) there will be a port to the iPhone now that it has voiceover and zoom support.
Not too sure about the 2nd Gen iPod Touch as the 3.0 software for this does not have the accessibility side that I am aware of. (I still have yet to update to 3.0)
Well thats it for now.
Any body reading this that want to beta test (beta testers are always appreciated) can leave a comment noting this.
Ciao
