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Originally Posted by Toxaris
That is because they listen to companies like Apple instead of actual users. It is not that the issues were not mentioned in the reactions on the drafts of the specs...
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The ironic thing is that Apple does not follow the EPUB specs either. At this point, I really dont know for whom these specs are written. They aren't written for users, in that, they dont try to address the most frequent problems actual book readers have with the EPUB format. Big companies such as Apple and Adobe regularly create EPUB viewing programs that dont conform to the specs. And that is not even to mention Amazon, which is the biggest and ignores them entirely. So what is the point of the specs? Who benefits from their creation? Why do people spend significant effort on creating them?
It seems to me that the entire EPUB spec effort has pretty comprehensively failed.