Thread: Why ePub 3?
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Old 09-18-2017, 09:20 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
This is precisely why no one takes you seriously: your constant assumption that an epub3 needs to to contain epub3-only features to justify its existence. There is no such thing as an "epub2 in an epub3 suit." A backward-compatible, text-only novel being sold by commercial epub retailers in the epub3 format IS an epub3 in every way shape and form. It meets the spec. It's not wearing an "epub2 suit." It doesn't need to take advantage of epub3's whizzbang features to justify its existence. That fact that it could just as easily be made into an epub2 does not imply that it needs to be.
One thing I've never seen in an ePub 3 is the use the the nav. I've never see it used. With a backwards compatible ePub 3, what programs/apps display the nav? If we dropped the NCX, would the nav be displayed for programs/app that are ePub 3 compatible?

My question, is what ePub 3 compatible programs/apps use any of the features of ePub 3 in a backwards compatible epUb 3?
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