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: 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > [email protected] > mobile +39.348.5653829 > VoIP +39.02.320621813 > skype italovignoli > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > 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 > -- - Per la llibertat del coneixement - - Per la llibertat de la ment... - -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
