On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:19:50 +0200, CaStarCo <casta...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a draft of the EPUB3 specification ( > http://idpf.org/news/epub-3-specification-public-draft-released ), I think > that this spec has many problems:
Since this is a draft specification: has anyone tried sending comments? (Unfortunately, I don't see a real *invitation* for comments, which is unlike the process used for ODF, W3C specs, ...). Best regards, Christophe > the capability of scripting (wich is > potentially harmful), the low emphasis on semantic data (they use metadata, > but specially related to the book structure, not with its content), to > forget the "3d models" type of media (epub3 "only" supports images, video > and sound, but not 3d models wich the user could explore), and the absence > of "profiles" (they talk about fallbacks, but only for scripting, not for > media content). I suppose there are good reasons to choose that spec and > not > an extended one... but at that moment, I can imagine which reasons are. > > I think that would be interesting to program an ebook editor, to promote > the > EPUB use over other privative formats. Many lacks of the EPUB format can be > covered with scripting, but hidding the scripting to the user, doing it > automaticly behind the scene. > > If there are interested people, then I'm interested on helping working on > webkit integration. > > Kind regards > > 2011/4/25 Italo Vignoli <italo.vign...@gmail.com> > >> On 04/25/2011 11:11 AM, drew wrote: >> >> However, should LibreOffice have support for producing documents >>> targeted to eReaders? I don't know maybe, probably. >>> >> >> I am not an expert on ebooks formats, but I know there are a lot of >> efforts >> around the ePub format to become a standard. Unfortunately, there are too >> many commercial interests around ebooks today for the development of a >> real >> independent standard. >> >> Anyway, should such a standard be defined and accepted, I would >> personally >> be in favour of supporting it, as documents are becoming more pervasive >> than >> in the past and in the future will be accessed through a multitude of >> devices (many of them being mobile). >> >> Best regards, Italo >> >> >> -- >> Italo Vignoli >> italo.vign...@gmail.com >> mobile +39.348.5653829 >> VoIP +39.02.320621813 >> skype italovignoli -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 www.docarch.be Twitter: @RabelaisA11y -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
