Thread: Why is the EPUB format so poorly implemented (on the desktop at least) ?
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Old 02-15-2011, 04:13 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
I mean come on. It's HTML with a little bit of CSS.
This is also the main problem. It's XHTML 1.0 with CSS 2.0, but not quite. There are some bits it doesn't support, and some minor extensions.

So a proper ePub reader shouldn't just use a browser engine, but one specifically designed for the ePub dialect. Unfortunately, no-one does, and no-one supports everything that ePubs should support.
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