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Awfully ranty. I'll attempt to summarize: - JavaScript now optional but discouraged. Author surmises this will be abused, decries feature creep. - No r
by GHFigs 16y ago
Awfully ranty. I'll attempt to summarize:
- JavaScript now optional but discouraged.
Author surmises this will be abused, decries feature creep.
- No required Unicode glyph coverage.
Thus even though content is UTF-8 or UTF-16, you still can't rely on readers actually supporting the glyphs you want to use.
- Author laments reader software that fails to implement EPUB-specific features and practical result of same.
The specific case of a certain fruit company is vividly rendered in an extended metaphor.
- A list of smaller features is discussed in brief.
MathML support is probably the most interesting to HN.
- Cannonical Fragment Identifiers.
A scheme for identifying *any* location inside an EPUB document, is described as over-engineered and unlikely to be implemented by anybody.