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I feel like EPUB is a standard who's features are underutilized. Is there a nice high-level overview of EPUBs capabilities? I found a German text from 2018 th

by Tepix 7y ago

I feel like EPUB is a standard who's features are underutilized. Is there a nice high-level overview of EPUBs capabilities? I found a German text from 2018 that covers EPUB 3.0-3.2 (which was obviously still a draft back then): https://www.dpc-consulting.org/epub-3-3-0-1-3-1-3-2-das-versions-chaos-der-ebook-formate/ https://www.dpc-consulting.org/epub-3-3-0-1-3-1-3-2-das-vers... It links to a long blog post that covers recent EPUB development by Dave Cramer, co-chair of the W3C Community Group: http://epubsecrets.com/why-specs-change-epub-3-2-and-the-evolution-of-the-ebook-ecosystem.php http://epubsecrets.com/why-specs-change-epub-3-2-and-the-evo... EPUBCheck is an open source tool that can check your EPUB files against the EPUB 3.2 spec. https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck

shakna 7y ago
The features are underutilised because most readers simply don't support them. There's no point using a feature if it'll just break the book for the vast majority of your audience, and it doesn't look like that situation is going to change anytime soon.