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Originally Posted by theducks
Usually standards are a super-set because the Standard did not support 'x'
IEEE488=>HPIB (in this case, the standard, was made AFTERWARDS)
How many extensions of BASIC were there? Pascal? Fortran? (those I have used)
'EPUB' versions seem to leave out big chunks or fail to do them properly.
Some you might blame on being part of the first generation e-books. But by EPUB2, those should have dwindled to a tiny-tiny list.
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Well ePub 2 is really the first ePub standard although OEB (Open eBook) was available earlier by the same team. OEB as a standard did not ship any product that would read it. Instead it was used like Kindle does today to create a proprietary format. Microsoft LIT, Mobipocket, and IMP were all based on OEB. Read about this in our wiki.
So ePub 2 is a first generation of any standard that required eBook readers to interpret it without much actual guidance.
Dale