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Originally Posted by Hitch
I mean, hell, I'm all for using old stuff, to check and even we mostly use ADE 4.x. There are too many things, too many ePUBs, etc. that won't' work in 2.3.
Hitch
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Yep. Last summer I took advantage of a small publisher discount to buy a DRM-free ebook directly from their site. Said ebook did not have a cover image appear on my Kobo. The cover image was there, inside the epub2, but no cover page in the document.
Let's just say IT HAD BEEN A WHILE since I had last worked with epub2. I attempted to add the cover page manually, using CSS3 code that works fine with epub3. IT DID
NOT FLY! My bad.
I then contacted the publisher, nicely, to suggest that when offering a DRM-free epub, featuring the original artwork from the vintage book as the cover on their website, they needed to code it so that the reader could actually enjoy the artwork on their reader. The publisher agreed. She
wanted people to buy direct! The next batch of books I bought, no missing cover issues.
If Jon is trying to make <figure> work in an epub2, which I suspect he is, I don't think he's going to have much luck.
If he's expecting a <figure> tag in epub3 to magically do something visible and exciting other than behave more or less like a <div>, he's gonna be disappointed as well. It's not gonna magically animate the illustration or photo like in a Harry Potter newspaper or textbook, LOL!
Mind you, what with AI and all, who knows, maybe such an animation
could happen in some future reading system. Doubt I'll be alive to see it, which, I suspect will be something to be
thankful for, actually.
