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Originally Posted by Quoth
I think there should be a fork. Epub 3.x has much that's irrelevant to static ebooks. Audio, animation, video and interactive (other than screen/window reflow) has no place in an ebook standard. Browser capabilities rather than features needed for static electronic copies of printed books has too much driven this.
We saw the same with PDFs. The PDF development should have forked, one fork to preview or replicate or source for paper print and the other fork for filling in forms, interactive, multimedia etc.
Feature creep in the wrong direction. A horse designed by a committee. Inevitable when epub was rolled into the W3 org. There is also no need for Fixed Layout Epub. That is as well served by a PDF.
Obviously better support for maths/formula, vector graphics, fonts, languages, multicolumn etc was needed than in epub2 which was a missed opportunity.
I want ebooks that can replicate any print document. I don't want "Harry Potter" style ebooks, or ebooks aspiring to be merely paginated versions of multimedia interactive websites, though a web browser that paginates, has jump to page and TOC like an ebook would be an improvement over the scrolling. Scrolls are so 2000 years ago.
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Nah. Just because the options are there doesn't mean you have to use them. Plus this:
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