Why no discussion of HTML as a book format? - Page 5

KevinH · 09-22-2020, 08:20 AM

Understood. And to each their own. FWIW, from a software perspective, most modern book engines are in fact web engines now see the iBooks, ADE SDK, the Readium SDK, etc.

I am not arguing against e-inks. I am arguing against requiring an extra app just to show a book that does have audio, video, mathml, and that uses javascript (think a modern Textbook). For light pure text stuff, any reader will suffice. But for modern TextBook's using epub3 (or a cloud based web reader) seems to be how things are being done with no need for the older separate apps.

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09-22-2020, 08:20 AM	#61
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,644 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Understood. And to each their own. FWIW, from a software perspective, most modern book engines are in fact web engines now see the iBooks, ADE SDK, the Readium SDK, etc. I am not arguing against e-inks. I am arguing against requiring an extra app just to show a book that does have audio, video, mathml, and that uses javascript (think a modern Textbook). For light pure text stuff, any reader will suffice. But for modern TextBook's using epub3 (or a cloud based web reader) seems to be how things are being done with no need for the older separate apps.