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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Not trivial.
There is simply too much room for interpretation of the specs that results in *visibly* discordant formatting in different engines/apps. That is why they talk of having to do different versions for all four of the retailers (and probably a fifth for generic Adobe clients if you expand their analysis outside NorthAm).
More, some of the epub features in epub3 (the primary subject of the forking explosion) are *very* CPU/GPU/DRAM intensive. There is stuff in epub3 that*Apple* is ignoring in their ibook fork that would eat alive current top-of-the-line iPads.
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Is it possible that people are asking too much of epub3 by setting a standard that would overwork a tablet?
Then again, it would be fairly par for the course. People like new stuff that pushes existing hardware to the breaking point, just because they can. Remember when Quake 4 won the Best Slideshow Game award?