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Originally Posted by Quoth
The problem is that Web/Multimedia people took over Epub during epub2. For epub3 they added loads of stuff for fixed layout (PDF does that) media and "accessibility" without fixing much needed for actual static reflowable ebooks. Evidence is how few apps or ereaders implement much extra in epub3.
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Well, that seems to be a both-way problem. Not only the people responsible for the standardization are doing things without deeper thinking, also the people responsible to make them working on the reader-side are not very willingly to implement at least some of the most wanted features since eBooks were born.
Only one example out of many would be the support for drop-caps, which was implemented in the CSS property initial-letter for :first-letter pseudo-classes. None of the big player like Google Play Books or Apple Books support this most of all wanted design feature.
The deveolpment of the eBook world seems still to be at the place where major browser companies were during the time of the great browser wars. And even when they all agree to implement EPUB standards correctly, there will still be Amazon which gives crap to any EPUB standard...