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Originally Posted by HarryT
The ePub rendering isn't really the issue - it's basically just HTML, and not hard to render.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
What I meant was that you don't have to pay Adobe their large fee if all you want is ePub rendering, because ePub is very easy to render, being HTML-based.
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I saw it the first time, and couldn't believe you said it. Then I saw it the second time, and I still can't believe you said it.
Rendering HTML + CSS
correctly is horribly difficult. Throw in SVG which the EPUB standard supports and now it's eyeball-gouging difficult. I mean geez, half the Webkit source tree is SVG, and the other half still makes for hundreds of thousands of lines of code. And Webkit is considered
light.
So no, rendering EPUB files is not easy. It's far,
far from easy. It's the reason why Adobe chose Webkit as the basis for their ADE renderer.