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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
The web - including but not limited to HTML - is my livelihood. I've already seen display techniques go from proprietary to standard to deprecated, just in the past fifteen years. Look at font handling: it was originally unavailable, then it was a proprietary element (<FONT>) introduced in one browser, then it was standard, and now it's deprecated in favor of CSS styles.
EPUB is now in version 3.0; how long will my 2.0 library stay supported on new devices? .LIT is already dead...
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The standards from 15 years ago are still documented, readily available today. And most browsers these days are largely backwards compatible, especially on stuff as basic as what's in EPUB. EPUB 3 includes backwards compatiblity to 2, as I recall.
If there's call for it, somebody, somewhere, will come up with a reader (probably an existing one, archived somewhere). If there's no call for it, nobody will miss it.
As for .LIT being dead, perhaps nobody is publishing new stuff in it today, but Calibre will still import it, and convert to and from it. Calibre is not an obscure, unknown program with no active support.
You don't need a
reader to handles dead formats, you only need a converter to a current format. And covnerters are not at all hard to make (though making one work
well can be a challenge, but you only need it solved once).