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Originally Posted by jgray
Great! We could certainly use another epub reader. All of the current programs have their own set of problems. I can't help you with the programming, but I am willing to help test and provide feedback.
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Originally Posted by Tuna
You have a lot of choices to make if you do so - what restrictions you are going to work within as well as what features and compromises you wish to support. It'd be a fun project to undertake and could really benefit e-readers in the process. I hope Korvid'll forgive me if I join in any discussions.  |
Thank you both for your offer to participate. I'm sure kovid will forgive us because there is just nothing to forgive: This is a discussion forum and we are just discussing different point of views. He made a great job with Calibre and Calibre could also benefit from new ideas regarding ePub rendering. Let's see if it's possible to change the "Why worse is better in ebook formats" into a future "Why ePub is just the better ebook format".
"Yes, we can".
It will take a little while before i will start a new thread on this topic because i have to pick up a lot of informations first...starting a successfull and "long-term survivable" open source project isn't that easy as i know from my own experience.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Now when you are rendering the first page, how will you know that the upper left corner needs a box overlay unless you've parsed the rest of the tree?
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Hm, interesting problem. I've to admit that i don't have a solution for this problem yet.