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Originally Posted by comet
So there are two aspects of interest:
1. Do producers of ereaders really implement their firmwares in such a manner that epubs conforming to the standards are surely displayed correct?
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Well, no. The implement a firmware that will display erranous ePubs as well as not displaying them will annoy the user.
But we are in the same discussion now with HTML in former times. All website designers were asking "Why should i do the w3c validator check? its full of errors, but in IE4 its displaying fine!".
And with IE6 they were forced to change their coding...
And of course, passing the valditor does not tell you that there are still errors: the images might be distorted, the internal TOC is missing and so on.
I do not understand why there are still so many ePubs having structural errors and why it is over and over again a discussion worth if those errors should be corrected or not.
In most cases less time is needed to correct the error as the discussion itself is consuming.
I really would prefer that every reader has a validator built in and refuses to display erranous ePubs.