Thread: First Editor's Draft of EPUB 3.1 now available
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Old 02-12-2016, 08:56 AM   #3
fjtorres
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How long has it taken for FLASH to die? How about XP? RTF?
Useful tech lingers, no matter what standard bodies or committees might decree.
And in direct contrast to gold-plating niche-driven "enhancements".
If the textbook publishers want a spec that isn't backwards compatible or interoperable with existing solutions, why not create their own instead of hijacking epub? It's not as if there is much of an epub textbook market and installed base to object to a migration to a different spec, call it Tpub.

Interoperable epub is already in trouble, what with the mutants and forks and the sluggish deployment of epub 3. Strip away backwards compatibility and it just might die right there.

New Coke, anyone?
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