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Originally Posted by murraypaul
For flashy multi-media stuff, what similar app?
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You could use Flash from Adobe to create a rich multimedia app. It will even run on iOS as an app, using the AIR framework. Another way would be to support Microsoft's Silverlight. The best way would be to create an app that can run HTML5, CCS3 and Javascript code, all zipped into a single file. That's the direction the web is moving into.
Oh, wait... Isn't that last option just like EPUB3?
I don't know if Safari already supports HTML5 and CSS3, but I would find it strange if it doesn't have at least preliminary support already. They could re-use part of the Safari engine for the EPUB3 app. They'd be setting a good example, and thereby supporting the standard and committee of which they are a member. They could even tout the fact that they are the first to have a fully compliant EPUB3 reader.
But they just *had* to go and create a new format that is partly EPUB(3) and partly not, and attach some crazy EULA to it.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, that's precisely the point that I was making. Unfortunately, though, we're never going to convince the "Apple are the spawn of Satan" crowd of this.
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If the spec is already (partly) there, then flesh that out, and support it. They're in the IPDF, for gods sake. Write the EPUB3 reader app, and creation software to go with it. Be the first to support the standard and tout that. There is no reason, besides money, to create a hybrid "standard" that is partly EPUB3 and partly not and tying it to your own platform.