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DiapDealer · 09-05-2025, 08:43 AM

Writers already have many methods available to them to write in something simpler than HTML: simply choose one of the many word processing programs available to them. There are many ways to quickly get Word and LibreOffice documents into EPUB producing software cleanly. If they need something simpler than that to create their content, they're already in way over their heads. And no amount of dumbing down of the EPUB specification is going to help with that.

Nobody needs to (or should) be authoring their content in any kind of markup language.

There is no upside to allowing html as a core media type in EPUB3 (sorry -- making it slightly easier to do something nobody's ever going to be doing is not a real upside). It's all downside in the form of breakage, fragmentation, and confusion. It's breaking things just to break them. All in the name of some irrelevant (not to mention unlikely) deprecation that the people proposing this change don't really seem to grasp the implications (or non-) of.

09-05-2025, 08:43 AM	#26
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,736 Karma: 206739468 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Writers already have many methods available to them to write in something simpler than HTML: simply choose one of the many word processing programs available to them. There are many ways to quickly get Word and LibreOffice documents into EPUB producing software cleanly. If they need something simpler than that to create their content, they're already in way over their heads. And no amount of dumbing down of the EPUB specification is going to help with that. Nobody needs to (or should) be authoring their content in any kind of markup language. There is no upside to allowing html as a core media type in EPUB3 (sorry -- making it slightly easier to do something nobody's ever going to be doing is not a real upside). It's all downside in the form of breakage, fragmentation, and confusion. It's breaking things just to break them. All in the name of some irrelevant (not to mention unlikely) deprecation that the people proposing this change don't really seem to grasp the implications (or non-) of. Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-05-2025 at 08:52 AM.