Re: An unexpected usage of EPUB:-)

I agree, many blind people that i know do the same finding much more
confortable with HTML. But have you looked at what sort of html Pages
generate?

Livio


On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

> I realized today a strange thing when using Mac' Pages program (that is a
> Word-like program for Mac, produced by Apple, although infinitely simpler
> than Word). Pages has various export functionalities. To my surprise, it
> does not have an HTML export; to my even greater (and pleasant) surprise,
> it has an EPUB export. Which makes sense if the document contains drawings,
> for example.
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> This is pretty much in line with our thoughts on epub.next, and also has a
> side effect. If one wants simply an HTML from a text only page, then
> generate the EPUB, unzip it, and there you have the HTML...
>
> :-)
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