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Originally Posted by pstjmack
Kindle/mobi seems to get the balance right in allowing reflow and keeping consistent formatting. And the attraction of both Kindle and EPUB is precisely that they do allow reflowing. I'm wondering what EPUB's problem is this way.
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I'm not really seeing much in the way of advantages/disadvantages (regarding formatting/reflow) between Kindle/ePub now that KF8 is full swing. It seems pretty much a wash to me in that department. Could you elaborate?
Unless you're referring to the fact that there's a myriad of ePub reading apps/devices out there all rendering ePub's with slightly different quirks and interpretations of (or outright indifference to) the ePub specs. If that's the case, the same mis-interpretation of (or outright indifference to) the ePub3 specs won't change that at all. As Jellby mentioned... there's nothing The Standard can do about reading apps/devices that choose to ignore the specs (or add their own features).
That's just a classic example of the differences between the evil, largely-undocumented yet
fairly consistent "proprietary" standard; and the transparent, well-documented, yet casually ignored and inconsistently-implemented "open" standard. *shrugs*