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Originally Posted by Sharkus
Perhaps it's a terminology thing then, in regards to the ePub2 Fixed Layout point.
Would it be better to say ePub2 non-reflowable?
Not being rude here, genuinely curious as we have had support in the iOS app for fixed layout content for a while now and this was before we had ePub3 support, and thus they would be ePub2 files.
If I was detailing an issue with content internally, I'd usually refer to it initially as a book, and when asked what format, it'd likely be reflowable, or fixed layout / comic book / SMIL. If it's reflowable then it'd probably be asked if ePub2 or ePub3.
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Terminology aside, fixed layout is not supported by a pure epub2 renderer. You can have support for FLO or part of FLO without supporting much else of epub3 though FLO is a pretty major epub3 feature with quite a few feature sets that should be supported. As an example, Datalogics DL Reader under Windows which uses the RMSDK 10 codebase handles some FLO features.
The iOS app's (v 7.3??) FLO support was severely limited the last time I tested it around June/July 2014. Synthetic spreads didn't work, landscape and portrait test documents were rendered in whatever orientation I was holding my iPad in instead of being forced to landscape or portrait, reflowable overrides gave interesting pages, etc.
Neither the iOS app or the Android app are my favoured way to read ebooks so I don't update/test them all that often. During the summer I was playing with the Bureau van Dijk demo application running under Android since it was the only software at that time to get over a 90% rating in all the major test areas. Admittedly, the Kobo eInk ereaders are handicapped there since the current models have an automatic fail on all the multimedia overlay features.
I have also seen some epubs being labelled as epub2/3. Generally, this means that they have both the epub2 and epub3 navigation documents but a couple have made use of quite a few epub3 features used with some care so that an epub2 renderer can display a readable page. Not pretty but readable.