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odedta · 11-12-2014, 11:02 AM

I disagree with your conclusion Faterson, HTML5 and CSS3 were rather experimental about 2 years ago, browsers had limited support for it and look what's going on today, nobody I know is using HTML 4.01 any more, everybody is using the new standard.

As for ePub3 and footnotes, I believe that the only proper way to display footnotes in an electronic book is by pop-ups and to that end I support ePub3 and build only ePub3 files.
There are plenty of readers out there that support this format, things tend to get standardized.
I feel like building ePub2 files is not looking towards the future, in addition, the more we create ePub3 and work with it, the more it will drive the community to create ePub3 compliant readers.

11-12-2014, 11:02 AM	#58
odedta Addict Posts: 398 Karma: 96448 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: iPad	I disagree with your conclusion Faterson, HTML5 and CSS3 were rather experimental about 2 years ago, browsers had limited support for it and look what's going on today, nobody I know is using HTML 4.01 any more, everybody is using the new standard. As for ePub3 and footnotes, I believe that the only proper way to display footnotes in an electronic book is by pop-ups and to that end I support ePub3 and build only ePub3 files. There are plenty of readers out there that support this format, things tend to get standardized. I feel like building ePub2 files is not looking towards the future, in addition, the more we create ePub3 and work with it, the more it will drive the community to create ePub3 compliant readers.