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Old 08-26-2012, 12:19 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Yes, that is precisely the point. There was no fixed-layout ePub standard in 2010, therefore, by definition, a fixed-layout spec devised in 2010 is not ePub. Such books have NEVER been ePub books. They were not ePub in 2010, and they are not ePub now. It's nonsensical to say that "they met the ePub spec at the time". They did not, because the ePub spec at the time had no specification for fixed layouts. They couldn't have met the spec at the time, and they certainly don't meet it now.
Nope. Wrong.

The Epub spec is a set of minimum requirements. It is not prescriptivist in nature. Ie, it doesn't describe all the allowable content, just what a file must have. That means that a fixed layout Epub could still meet the Epub spec.

So the industry standard Epub was fragmented then and still is now.
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