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Old 09-19-2023, 05:26 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
The knee-jerk adverse reaction to anything/anyone mentioning "interactivity" in epubs is tiresome. Text-based novels are not going to go extinct just because some interactive epubs get sold. There's room for both. Relax.
Yes, there is, but interactive and epub is an oxymoron. Having produced multimedia for years, epub is a stupid choice for interactivity. It was even stupid adding it to PDF; that should have been a different format, especially as Adobe also had Action Script and Flash (which isn't just about video or games). But now those are obsoleted and replaced by iOS/Android frameworks for phone and tablet.
All the arguments against Action Script and Flash even more so apply to epub with Javascript. It and other multimedia should never have been in epub3. Better tools for the job.
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