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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I am concerned about the performance impact of rendering HTML on an embedded device, so I'm going to remain skeptical until I see an embedded reader.
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Numerous PDAs have been rendering HTML with adequate performance for some years now. I use my Nokia N800 to view complicated web sites and the performance is adequate. The current crop of dedicated readers use similar hardware to a modern PDA.
Given the subset of XHTML that the OPS spec requires and the fact that you would not expect an ebook to support everything that a full web browser does, I don't think performance is going to be an issue, if the rendering software does a good job (I'm thinking about Digital Editions and how poorly it performs on a desktop PC).