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Old 01-09-2010, 05:27 AM   #284
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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj View Post
If it crashes, it's software's fault because, especially with txt and ePub format, software can always be made to check on ebook formatting, recognize elements and ignore elements it doesn't handle. If the software is ok, and ebook has features it doesn't support, it wouldn't display them - but it shouldn't crash. If ebook is not in correct format, document syntax can be checked without crashing as well.
True.
But two point still :
It's hard to forseen ALL what could happen.
If an ePub don't respect the standard, well... Not the reader's job to fix that. If everything goes as excepted, both reader and ePub use the standard, and it "just work". There shouldn't be stuff the reader "don't recognize".
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