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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
So you are saying this is a good thing overall or a legitimate excuse? Should not some effort be made to make it work seamlessly? Would not ease of use and smooth transitioning work in the developers favour?
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A legitimate excuse. Adobe implements epub2, ACCESS implements epub3. Much like asking why your HTML 3 browser did not render pages identically to a HTML 4 browser or handle HTML 4 tags.
Entering the Japanese market without the text direction support offered by epub3 would have been very difficult for Kobo. With their latest release, Datalogics is offering some text direction support in an Adobe DRM environment but the two books I looked at had issues including furigana not being displayed correctly.
For the end user, being caught in a time of change is not all that pleasant but pretty much the only other game in town is Amazon who can modify their proprietary standard much faster.
Regards,
David