Thread: ZDNET: Apple sabotaging ePub?
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Old 01-30-2012, 11:59 AM   #145
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Originally Posted by Redcard View Post
What is the difference between implementing only a subset of features of EPUB3 and calling it .epub, and what Apple did, which was IMPLEMENT ONLY A SUBSET OF FEATURES OF EPUB3, and calling it .ibook?
But that is not what they did. They introduced new things that is not in ePub3. So the choice was to implement a subset (with the plan to extend the support) and not call it ePub3 or invent their own parts of the language.
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