Re: EPUB and XML [was: The non-polyglot elephant in the room]

On Jan 29, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Bill McCoy <whmccoy@gmail.com> wrote:

> A tiny percentage of the titles in the iBookstore were created by
> Apple iBooks Author program and are therefore in the proprietary
> "fork" of the EPUB format (.ibook) that is presently generated by
> iBooks Author. That format as Leif impies also uses XHTML-based
> content and it would appear also uses UIWebView (WebKit) for
> rendering.

For the sake of clarity: it WebKit is not used for rendering iBooks author files. (Though if anyone has further questions please direct them off-list.)

 - Maciej

Received on Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:11:37 UTC