Epub Revision - rich media & interactivity

[dmikov]

Originally Posted by cmdahler

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.

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by dmikov

(sorry Valoric v2 is great, but it's no Dreamweaver or VisualStudio)

I agree, Dreamweaver or Visual Studio it is not. Sadly, I lack the resources of MS and Adobe.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by dmikov

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.

Actually since all renderers except ADE are based on browser engines, adding video and script is pretty easy.