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@Terisa: I think having a dictionary is completely up to the user agent (the e-reader software). There are plug-in dictionaries for browsers today, even one for the OED. So I believe your could have a dictionary in either EPUB 2.1 or EPUB 3. It does seem that tentative support for CSS3 hypenation (word-break:hyphenate) is included in the spec. This would be a nice change.
@HarryT: First, thanks for the books you have uploaded here. I am enjoying the fruits of your labor. My belief (and hope) is that going to EPUB3 will mean that it becomes much more reasonable for browser makers to produce EPUB readers, since it is a matter of decontenting existing browsers (blocking/removing some features). This would be technically much easier than Adobe upgrading their current offering to full EPUB 3 support. I bet when Adobe do release a product, it will be built on current browser technology, not what they use today. It is either you or Jellby who now includes an index.html that lets you view a current epub in a browser - that shows how easily browsers can handle epubs already today.
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