I couldn't find a thread related to this so I decided to open a new one.
Last week, on the 15th of February, the first EPUB 3 public draft was released. For me, it looks like EPUB 3 is really coming because it has been developed actively since May 2010. Also, they have already planned to publish the final version of EPUB 3 at the Book Expo America in May.
But I'm concerned will it be adapted by new and old reading devices. Already at the moment, different reading platforms show same EPUB file in different ways. Will this problem be history after EPUB 3?
Many new improvements will be done compared to EPUB 2.0.1 but some issues still remain unsolved. For example, finally video and audio will be supported by the standard but at the moment seems that only H.254 video format is supported (
link).
What are your thoughts about EPUB 3. Will it set the new course for e-books or will it be a flop?
Link to news about first public draft:
http://idpf.org/news/epub-3-specific...draft-released
Link to EPUB 3 Specification:
http://idpf.org/epub/30
EPUB Revision:
http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/