Thread: kepub: why does it exist?
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Old 03-18-2024, 10:06 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
The explanation I once got is that the extra spans simplified the task of selecting text. This dates back to the ACCESS renderer.
That would make sense since selections are done by an element and an offset, and having the deepest element always being a span makes it really simple to encode/decode selections.
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