MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - A little about the FictionBook 2.0 format

Laurens · 01-22-2006, 06:39 AM

Fictionbook support is only an idea. I have no actual plans to support it as of yet. It all depends on how many people might actually use it and how good the support for the FB format in the readers actually is. (In other words: if it's actually worth the effort.) For instance, the FBReader page states that there it has no support for styles yet. Does that mean it cannot render boldfaced and italic text? If so, that would be quite a limitation.

I do like the support for PNG and JPEG images and the fact that you can just stream them as base64. I also like the fact that FB supports real links. (You wouldn't want to know how complicated link handling in Plucker is.)

01-22-2006, 06:39 AM	#7
Laurens Jah Blessed Posts: 1,295 Karma: 1373 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: The Netherlands Device: iPod Touch	Only an idea Fictionbook support is only an idea. I have no actual plans to support it as of yet. It all depends on how many people might actually use it and how good the support for the FB format in the readers actually is. (In other words: if it's actually worth the effort.) For instance, the FBReader page states that there it has no support for styles yet. Does that mean it cannot render boldfaced and italic text? If so, that would be quite a limitation. I do like the support for PNG and JPEG images and the fact that you can just stream them as base64. I also like the fact that FB supports real links. (You wouldn't want to know how complicated link handling in Plucker is.)