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by Turing_Machine
5257 days ago
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Yes, it sounds like almost all of these features were proposed (and rejected) by the committee (I'm assuming here that 'fictionality' is a thinko for 'functionality' :-). The settings for column width and column gap width, in particular, sound like they'd be critical for making a really attractive ebook. If the epub 3 standard doesn't support such basic functionality, there's a problem. This isn't quite the same as the stuff Microsoft pulled -- MS created tools that claimed to generate "HTML" (but which in reality only worked in Internet Explorer) and encouraged their use on the public web. Apple isn't claiming these things are ePub 3 (or any other standard format), and in fact they're explicitly forbidding their use in a generic context. I'm not a fan of their licensing restrictions, but at least they're not claiming (or even implying) in any way that these ebooks are standards-based. |
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