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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I thought the newest Kobo supported epub 3? Is that not correct?
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Kobo and Apple support *some* epub3 features.
Kobo has promised *full* epub3 support for the third quarter.
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012...-quarter-2013/
Technically, we're already in the third quarter but apparently they haven't yet gotten there:
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013...us-epub3-plan/
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In December of last year, EPUB content formats evangelist at Kobo Jim Dovey said that Kobo would fully support EPUB3 by the third quarter of this year — essentially, now. The company has not yet responded to a request for an update.
And Sony announced in March that its new children’s ebook platform would support EPUB3.
All of the major ebook retailers have reading software that supports some elements of EPUB3, with Apple leading the way. But the standardization of major retailers accepting one common file format may be a long way off.
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The problem is that all the retailers supporting parts of epub3 are supporting *different* parts. The new initiative is to settle on a common subset of epub3 that they can all agree on.
A further problem is that even if they do agree on a common subset and it takes off, it may abort further epub3 development. More often than not, when "lite" versions of a spec take off, the full spec dies.