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Old 04-11-2010, 01:31 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by cmdahler View Post
Ah, the neverending rush to glitz. The ePub standard needs to get plain text books right first before moving on to stuff like rich media. There's still so many things that need to be fixed with respect to basic typography in the ePub standard; I can't even imagine how screwed up this format will get if they start slap-dashing things like embedded video, etc., into the standard. Jeez, I don't want to read a web page, I want to read a book.
Yep, yep. Just looking at epub editor situation we are not even in mature (sorry Valoric v2 is great, but it's no Dreamweaver or VisualStudio) phase, the renderers are also few and buggy. Adding video and script( especially one that changes layout) can postpone mature products for awhile.
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