Re: EPUB for Education JavaScript API

Let’s not lose track of this! I’ve long suspected that there may be
implementations of past (or even paused-but-current) work that we’re not
aware of, and that we don’t have good ways of finding out about.—Bill

On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 5:28 PM Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Does anyone know if the API, as described in the draft spec, is likely
> to be standardized in the reasonably near future?
>
> My best guess would be no, at least for the reasonably near future part.
> There were a number of IDPF specs that didn't get finished before the
> merger, edupub being one of them, and it's not clear which, if any, will be
> taken up again. There were discussions about decomposing edupub into
> smaller parts, but not sure what became of that.
>
> A question for the ongoing charter discussions.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cay Horstmann <cay@horstmann.com>
> Sent: March 3, 2020 11:47
> To: public-epub3@w3.org
> Subject: EPUB for Education JavaScript API
>
> Hello, I am looking at the EPUB for Education JavaScript API at
> https://w3c.github.io/publ-cg/education/epub-education.html#javascript-apis.
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>
> I use an earlier (and slightly different) version of the API with great
> success in VitalSource EPUBs, and am building tools to help with the
> development of new interactive exercise types.
>
> Does anyone know if the API, as described in the draft spec, is likely
> to be standardized in the reasonably near future?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cay
>
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