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Originally Posted by =X=
Well as a SW developer for many years I've seen many proposed standards come and go. The best standards are those that are rigorous enough to allow consistency yet flexible enough for developers/hardware vendors to implement a cost effective solution.
ePUB today is too flexibility. SONY's file limitation should not have happened. The spec should have provided for these memory constrained devices or excluded them form supporting ePUB.
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I would have to re-read the specification documents to discuss this further, but i guess you are right. What i don't get is why the sony developers didn't choose another way to solve the memory issues. They must have been very "uninspired"...
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Originally Posted by =X=
ePUB does not benefit from this and with a very loosely defined standard I see a bumpy road for ePUB.
I really want ePUB to succeed but fear without a conforming ePUB standard there will be many solutions of ePUB that will not work different devices.
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Yes, that's my worry too. I hope that the FBReader team will improve it's ePub-implementation and that a lot of other projects will add standard conforming (and well working) implementions soon.
PS: Sorry for my assumption that you aren't (or weren't) a sw developer...