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Originally Posted by SBT
Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to the raison d'etre for EPUB3?
The utility of EPUB2 is easy to grasp: define a subset of HTML4 so that books can be displayed on devices with limited features.
With EPUB3, it seems like more or less all of HTML5 is supported, giving the possibility of all-singing, all-dancing e-books. But what is then the point of wrapping another format around HTML5? Why not just keep your document as just an HTML file and have one less standard to comply with?
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The rational was to update ePub 2 to keep up with the technology changes, hence adopting HTML5 instead of 4, MATHML, and several more. A browser does not make a good eBook reader as it scrolls rather than pages, like a book. But they seem to have gotten carried away with features and lost the eBook roots IMHO.
Dale