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Op is talking about time-spans longer than we've had the internet. Don't flatter yourself by thinking you can predict the future. ( Ironically, neither Firefox
by 36erhefg 11y ago
Op is talking about time-spans longer than we've had the internet. Don't flatter yourself by thinking you can predict the future.
( Ironically, neither Firefox nor Opera opened a .epub file out-of-the-box. So much for compatibility. )
- JupiterMoon 11y agoTrue but html has the advantage of being a text based markup. The chances are that a text editor in 2050 will open an epub are fairly high. I don't know what the odds of being able to view a 2015 .mobi file at all in 2050 is.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI'm wondering if the downvoters really think that plain text will be unreadable in 35 years? Seems strange. I can open asci files from the 1970's just fine today...
- Turing_Machine 11y agoHTML still isn't going anywhere. Not with trillions of pages, it isn't. We can still read cuneiform writing, and that's been around considerably longer. "Ironically, neither Firefox nor Opera opened a .epub file out-of-the-box. So much for compatibility. " An EPUB is a collection of ZIPed HTML files. Change the extension to .ZIP, unzip, open. ZIP isn't going anywhere, either.
- 36erhefg 11y agoYou are taking a strawman position. Take a look at the bigger picture, my other comment, and reevaluate.