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Originally Posted by Doitsu
Since ePub3 hasn't really caught on and very few ePub3 features are actually adding value to the reader experience (for example, popup footnotes) ePub3 support doesn't really matter. Besides, ePub3 readers should be ePub2 compatible.
If ePub3 actually catches in on in couple of years, someone'll most likely have to create an ePub3 editor from scratch, because of the significant format differences.
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I agree with this for the most part. Not because I'm anti-epub3 or anything. The fact of the matter is: changing Sigil into an ePub3 editor probably wouldn't be an insurmountable task. Difficult and very time-consuming, surely, but not insurmountable. I even think there's already a fork out there somewhere doing exactly that. The problem is that to remain truly useful, Sigil would have to be able to create, open, edit and save
BOTH ePub2 and ePub3. You'd need to be able do all that
as well as being able to convert between the specs (at least the direction of epub2 to epub3). Accomplishing that AND maintaining all the features we've come to know and love is where things would probably get a little too daunting to be practical (not to mention
likely).