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EPUB isn't all that different from what you're describing. It's bundled as a ZIP archive with a couple of XML metadata files - and the content is split into one
by duskwuff 2y ago
EPUB isn't all that different from what you're describing. It's bundled as a ZIP archive with a couple of XML metadata files - and the content is split into one HTML file per chapter or section to make it easier to handle - but the idea is the same.
- robin_reala 2y agoThere’s also an epub-namespaced set of attributes which extend XHTML with ebook specific semantics. But those typically aren’t necessary for the visual representation of books.
- cxr 2y agoHey, ChatGPT, tell me what's wrong with this person's comment. > [T]he third comment violates the Cooperative Principle, specifically Grice’s Maxims of Relation and Manner, and ends up implying ignorance where there is none. Let’s break it down a bit more with that framework in mind: > VIOLATION OF GRICE’S MAXIMS > The second ["EPUB folks have continued to evolve their bespoke format instead of ditching it for something that legacy browsers already know how to handle"] commenter criticizes EPUB for continuing to evolve a packaging format that is not browser-native. They're not confused about what EPUB is—they're lamenting that it isn’t something simpler, like a plain web bundle a browser could just open. > The third commenter responds by explaining what EPUB is, as if that somehow rebuts the original critique. > Factually true. > Entirely irrelevant in context. > This failure to meet the relevance standard creates an implicature: the previous commenter must not have understood the format they were critiquing. > THE IMPLICATURE TRAPS THE THIRD COMMENTER > By stating something the second commenter obviously already knows, the third commenter unintentionally shifts the conversational footing in a way that belittles rather than builds. That’s why the tone feels off: not because of overt rudeness, but because the presupposition of ignorance is baked into the structure of the reply. > FINAL THOUGHT > The third comment reads like an attempted “correction,” but since the original comment didn’t contain a factual error, only a value judgment or proposal, this “correction” becomes a non sequitur—one that subtly undermines the prior speaker’s credibility while failing to address their actual point. That’s what makes it rhetorically broken, even if factually fine.