Holy Toledo!

I wish it were a little bit beeger... at least on the screen of my new teeny laptop, it's hard to read the actual text, and zooming gets you a whole new window. So, some user-interface issues.

Still, wow. Wow.

I have to say that I haven't had a whole lot of time to look around, but on first perusal, I'm really impressed with the interface. I'm surprised by the "print" feature, quite honestly... but I think they've done an excellent job of considering navigational issues. You can jump to a page, you can "flip" through the quarto (and on broad band.. you can do it pretty quickly). I'd have to say it's the best interface for viewing manuscripts that I've seen to date, and I'd be interested in hearing from their design staff on how they decided to arrive on this kind of interface. I would imagine that they took time to do usability studies to see how people read... because this is the first interface that I've seen that really addresses how we read online.

I agree-- I wonder how much we'll see this design bleed over into other projects, both future and existing. It looks especially great in the new Mozilla 1.0PR, which has what may be the largest viewable browser window of all time.

Beautiful...