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Hamlet53 · 04-22-2010, 02:02 PM

Hopefully, adding something relevant. If one is old enough one can recall how long it took the major Internet browsers (then IE and Netscape) to to even support anywhere near the same HTML, CSS, and DHTML. For the longest time they persisted in their own customizations. I think that we are in the same stage of infancy with respect to e-book formats and rendering, with all these different file formats out there. Toss in multiple devices and it really gets messy. That's why I hope some format is selected as standard (my choice would be EPUB) and then it can get down to achieving full and uniform compliance with the EPUB standards across all devices. Futile wish?

04-22-2010, 02:02 PM	#12
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Hopefully, adding something relevant. If one is old enough one can recall how long it took the major Internet browsers (then IE and Netscape) to to even support anywhere near the same HTML, CSS, and DHTML. For the longest time they persisted in their own customizations. I think that we are in the same stage of infancy with respect to e-book formats and rendering, with all these different file formats out there. Toss in multiple devices and it really gets messy. That's why I hope some format is selected as standard (my choice would be EPUB) and then it can get down to achieving full and uniform compliance with the EPUB standards across all devices. Futile wish?