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Originally Posted by Welblaud
This is probably because of the web-based nature of ebooks—developers like to invent (from the reader’s point of view) nonsenses like media overlays or audio, ruby, video, invisible red piglets support but such basic things like better typography support keep them calm 
With this on mind I am wondering how long we would wait for the support of other important things of newer CSS version (-epub-hyphens and so on). |
And that is Apple's fault. They pushed hard for this for their iBooks platform and is one of the reasons of the sad state of ePUB3. Instead of fixing the things of ePUB2 that were missing or not working right for BOOKS, they went off on flashy things.