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Old 12-22-2015, 06:02 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
ePub 3 is a mess. They really screwed it up. We need ePub 4 which would be a ePub 2 with extensions. There's no reason to change things so drastically. Just add in what's missing, keep it simple is the way to go.
Can you please be more specific as to what is missing?

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Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
One of the issues is, that if you do footnotes as they should be in ePUB3, they will not work in ePUB2 at all.
As long as you code them as rearnote endnotes they should also work with older ePub2 readers.
You can test this with this simple epub2 compatible ePub3 file that I created some time ago. (The rearnote footnotes even work with ADE 1.7.)
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