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Originally Posted by KevinH
Yes, I could not agree more. The MUST, SHOULD, and MAY verbiage of the spec really sets an extremely low bar (too low imho) to be called a "compliant" epub3 reader.
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It seems that the manufacturers have not tried very hard to raise the EPUB standard to a higher level. If no one is going to complain, the discipline of the market will not work either. In the longer term it is also not in the interest of the manufacturers if their customers turn away from EPUB.
My video problem is that there is actually very little information to be found. With some EPUB readers you can disable the standard video keys and also replace them with your own keys as long as you don't touch the key full screen. At that moment you lose your own keys and the video player reverts to hard-coded keys.
What is noticeable if not native English speaking is that the subtitle key shown initially is not shown in full screen mode. Great chance that at that moment the shadow DOM is used that the manufacturer uses to shield its incomplete default full screen video setting. In itself, with a correct implementation, there is, but with a faltering application, this is less to live with. Firstly, I don't believe that there are no deaf people in English-speaking countries and secondly, if there are, they probably want to be able to turn the subtitles on or off in full screen.
Does anyone have experience how to use the video player shadow DOM in an EPUB?