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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Look how long it's taken for ePub 3 to be supported and even then it's still not fully supported enough. We don't need more changes that will take too long to support or may never be supported well enough. So lets can this nonsense and leave things as they are.
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You are absolutely right about the slow uptake of EPUB3. The pace of change over the whole ecosystem is one of the considerations.
If Reading Systems are based on User Agents (same as the web) and XML is deprecated in the HTML spec, what happens to the books? What happens to the workflows? And the tools?
If we wait until XML is no longer supported to introduce HTML, how long will it take for the Ebook ecosystem to respond?
I appreciate XML. I’ve made good use of it and its precise namespaces for literally years now. I’m sorry, and frankly a little surprised, that the larger web community is intent on deprecating it. That is out of scope for the Publishing Group. We literally cannot fork all of HTML.
The question is how do we help Reading Systems, Developers, Publishers and Readers have a smooth transition?
Introducing HTML sooner rather than later could give the ecosystem time to adjust.
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