I originally saw this mentioned on mobipocket's forums, but Karel (iRex Community Manager) in the iRex forum thread
When will iRex's version of Mobipocket add features? said:
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There will be no new features introduced in the current Mobipocket viewer. The reason for this is because we are working on a viewer frame work. This viewer frame work will make it possible to easily add additional format support by both the community and iRex. In addition each feature developed for the viewer framework will be available to all supported formats.
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This is bad news in the short term, since the iLiad MobiPocket reader is very feature poor, but iRex is probably right in the long term to ditch the entire thing and start again.
Is iRex really capable of generating a viewer framework from scratch? I think it would actually be easier, and technically superior, to start over using FBReader as the basis for all viewers. It already meets the "easy to add new formats" and "new features" applies to "all supported formats" criteria. Note that FBReader can now in principle support (licensed) MOBI DRM by distributing a binary only version with this included.