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Originally Posted by DNSB
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
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Now you are confusing me
Are you saying that Kobo's renderer (modified or not is the equivalent of an HTML3 browser in an HTML 4 world, or the opposite. Seems you are saying the first.
HTML 3/HTML4 or Adobe/Access can't say I care if they are reasonable. Adobe is reasonable on my Sony and slightly less reasonable on my Kobos. Acess does not work on anything but my Kobo's and as I seem to encounter every bug in the known universe no matter which way I upgrade, or whether I use SD card or not, well I do not do kepubs.
I fail to see Kobo's marketing strategy. You can only view kepubs (without converting) on a Kobo device or using a Kobo app. Kobo apps are AFAIK kind of crippled in that they can only be used to view Kobo store epubs or kepubs, so even if they are truly splendiferous only diehard Kobo people are going to use them long term.
Just saying
Helen