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Old 06-21-2019, 10:11 AM   #143
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
1) Webkit and EPUB3 have nothing to do with each other. One is a rendering system used by many epub reading devices (or reading applications) and the other is an open spec that tries to define how ebooks should be structured. And EPUB3 added much in the way of metadata and semantics. You can't however, force people to implement them in their books or reading systems.

2) A very large number of commercially sold epubs are sold as epub3s. I buy them all the time. EPUB3 is very much "in the wild." Has been for some time, now.
But these ePub3 you ae talking about are nothing more then ePub2 in an ePub3 wrapper. How about ePub3 that's not backwards compatible with ePub2? There aren't many out in the wild. I would say less then 1% of all ePub for sale is ePub3 specific.
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