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I've been selling passwords that grant access to online boat building instructions since dinosaurs roamed. Now I'm trying to get rid of web pages and to replace them with epub. Jutoh works by default as epub but it can be made to export as epub3, which I will eventually do.
Once finished I will offer an epub2 download for devices but I will use my own server-side PHP-based software to dynamically display the corresponding epub3 version as webpages (that will be accessible only to those who purchase a password). The TOC file in epub3 is a lot easier to parse. Epub3 also makes embedded video possible.
My customers (I have sold a few short of 3000 passwords since 2000 or so) clamor for supplementary how-to-do-it video sequences.
Epub3 as a dynamic web service (rather than downloaded to hand held device) seems like the way to go for video. Downloading large amounts of video to phone does not make sense. Streaming and discarding on the fly, as it comes from web pages, is the best way to handle video embedded inside epub3......it seems to me. My sever side "display epub3" as dynamic webpages already works. At this point I do have to unzip the epub3 on the server manually, to make it work. But PHP does support dynamic zip and unzip functions, so that manual step will likely go away eventually.
The open source BIBI software already exists, that also displays epub on an apache web server. But BIBI hard codes the HTML header so it cannot be "embedded" inside an enclosing content management system without using an IFRAME, which has major drawbacks. My system spits out a collapsable DIV for the TOC and another DIV for the sectionX xhtml content. The content DIV may or may not also enclose the TOC. That sort of layout behavior is controlled by an XML config file.
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