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Originally Posted by KevinH
Epub2 is dead as a spec. Amazon is not king. And Javascript when used intelligently can be useful. Perhaps it is time to let the past go.
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I agree that ePub2 is no longer a consideration.
However, I would have to disagree that Amazon is not king for commercial ebooks. For the authors, I do work for, even those who have gone wide, the majority of their income is from Amazon. For that reason, I can not and will not consider adding Javascript for any purpose where it's lack would be noticed. I will have to admit Kindle take down notices were responsible for a fair chunk of my early ebook cleanup jobs and a couple of those were due to ePub3 ebooks that used JavaScript.
For my personal use, I can go wild on using advanced features but for commercial work, KISS is definitely the only way to go. I do use a mix of ePub2 and ePub3 code but that is as far as I go at this time.