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Originally Posted by DNSB
Given the problems that various implementors have in making web pages render identically -- try looking at many web pages in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc, you are asking a bit much to have two renderers supporting different standards give identical results.
Regards,
David
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Correct, but Adobe is de facto the standard on e-readers. That won't change when 3pub replaces epub2.
A renderer should simply follow the epub3 specification.
Which renderer is used is not that important as it is basically a page rendering engine plus a DRM solution. Kobo could also use the Adobe renderer and use there own kDRM solution or the Access renderer and Adobe DRM schemes.
A reader should use one page renderer that recognizes the format (epub or kepub) and apply the appropriate DRM scheme.
Access should license the Adobe DRM scheme and offer it to their customers. Best of both worlds? Easier to maintain by Kobo? Other?