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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
EPUB2->EPUB3 Transition
I suspect backlogs will also slowly update from EPUB2->EPUB3, where a lot of semantics will be wrapped around things like footnotes:
EPUB2:
EPUB3:
(28 character difference * # footnotes = a lot of bytes)
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I don't see that sort of change happening because it will break a lot of eBooks. They will stop working. Most software to read ePub is not compliant with your ePub 3 example. And a lot of people have older devices where the software is never going to be updated to handle your ePub 3 sample. Take for example, Apple, there are a lot of Apple devices where the version of iOS will never be updated and if any Reading app's updates are not compatible with that older version iOS, then the users will not have any new features. Also, there are a lot of old Readers out there still in use where that ePub 3 sample will fail. And that includes Kindles. Most Kindle eBooks start out as ePub for the source and that ePub 3 sample is going to cause a lot of problems on Kindles.
That's the problem with ePub 3. It has to play nice with older software and thus, trying to use code like the sample isn't playing nice. So it's not going to happen. You won't find eBooks with the ePub 2 coding being converted to the ePub 3 type coding. You would find if that did happen that many people would complain when the eBook failed to work.