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There are HTML versions but they don't seem to reflow example: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudolph-erich-raspe/the-surprising-adventures-of-baron-muncha
by contrarian1234 3y ago
There are HTML versions but they don't seem to reflow
example:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudolph-erich-raspe/the-surprising-adventures-of-baron-munchausen/text/single-page https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudolph-erich-raspe/the-su...
A bit offtopic, but I never understood why .epub is a thing. For instance the linked HTML/XHTML version seems to work just fine (except for the reflow thing.. but I assume that a CSS issue)
.epub seems to be mostly HTML with a few pieces missing. I guess I don't understand why we needed a new format? and not just use a strict HTML subset?
I'd love some strict HTML subset that indicated the file can be used offline. I personally try to make all my webpages so that they can be saved to disk and opened from a single file (though if you embed images/videos this becomes problematic). But I don't have a way to indicate to a reader "Hey you can Ctrl+S this webpage". I'd publish .epub, but the browser won't open them
- boznz 3y agoepub is just a collection of zipped HTML, CSS FONTS and images and as bog standard as you can get. You can open it with a Zip extractor and see.
- contrarian1234 3y agoHuh.. yeah.. so then why doesn't Firefox/Chrome open it?
- robin_reala 3y agoEdge used to support ePubs directly, but they removed that functionality for some reason. There is a little more to it than just rendering. E.g. ideally you’d want some popup table of contents support.
- boznz 3y agoChrome opens the html pages fine once the epub is unzipped. Some epubs may however have DRM I dont have any of those but they probably wont work.