- From: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 16:04:35 +0100
- To: Liza Daly <liza@safaribooksonline.com>, W3C Digital Publishing Discussion list <public-digipub@w3.org>
On 2015-01-17 23:59, Liza Daly wrote: > Though it's out of date and the slides themselves aren't really wordy > enough to stand on their own, I talked about a mapping between multiple > renditions and HTTP content negotiation in this presentation: > http://www.slideshare.net/lizadaly/streaming-digital-books-idpf-digital-book-2012-presentation > > The idea was that a packaged EPUB could be a large, rich "manuscript", and > the work of downscaling, swapping formats, or choosing between translations > could be done at request time. I don't know if anything like this has ever > been implemented in practice, though, so I wouldn't consider multiple > renditions particularly relevant for the OWP. > > Liza Dear Liza, all, Perhaps you or someone can give me a very brief history as to why EPUB exists. What were the primary challenges that EPUB tries/d to solve which were not already possibly via plain HTML (and friends)? If any, what new problems did it create? Thanks, -Sarven http://csarven.ca/#i
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