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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
But: no javascript in KF8 (so no Canvas) and - as you said - a subset of everything... and no video in KF8, no media overlay...
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AGGHGHGHGHGHGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
That is why I mentioned "claimed". The fixed-layout format is an afterthought in ePub 3 and designed as a reaction to the efforts of Amazon, Apple and others. I think it has its place but it remains to be seen if the companies that really came up with it will adopt the ePub 3 version, which is a watered down attempt IMHO. That being said, fixed layout, is a niche market and not part of the ePub 3 mainstream.
Dale
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Yes. But I wish bygod that "multi-media" had become a separate format, for all intents and purposes. Something else. Like a bloody app. I mean, what does EVERYONE think of, really, when they hear ePUB3? FXL and multi-media. Not anything else.
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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
Do you really think this? Actually I fear the EPUB3 fixed with multimedia and javascript is the place where there is most support by EPUB3 reader and where publishers prefer to work.
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Ditto.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I see javascript and multimedia as different from a Fixed Format. There is nothing about those features that is limited to fixed format, the data can still flow.
Dale
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Along with the Spice, apparently.
I see javascript and multimedia as different from eBooks, for the love of whatever. I mean..yes, javascript textbox/footnote pop-ups would be LOVERLY. To me, that makes sense as a book. (n.b.: IF we ever had a viable, realistic, eBook-verse wide process/display mechanism for indices, that might be great, too. But, like a unicorn, that's a long way off.)
And, yes: I would never argue that for some learning environment books, like cookbooks, "how to repair your <insert thing here>," etc., that video would and could be really valuable. But without a tablet device suited to seeing those things, putting multimedia into an eBook is...a lipsticked pig.
Her High Grouchiness heads off...to face the Taxes.
Hitch