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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
What is the big deal with writing that into the ePub standard. As in "ePub readers must be able to support stardict". Now it is up to the manufacturer of the ePub-reading-app if they want to only support stardict. If they don't like the performance or file structure of stardict, they are free to include a tool that will generate a compiled version for the reading app. If they want to reinvent the wheel for various reasons (they cannot get a reasonable licence of a startdict dictionary e.g.) then they are free to put additional support in for a different (even propritary) format.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
If the definition of a dictionary was a part of the ePub specification, you could buy dictionaries for any ePub device in an ePub bookstore, just like you can with Mobipocket dictionaries. How could that not be a good thing?
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Modularity. I'd like to keep separate the ebook spec from the dictionary spec. I agree that it is not difficult to implement both, but --- at least in my view --- they serve different purposes, hence they should live in different "specs", especially because they can be used in several context each one without the other.