- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:24:48 -0400
- To: Colin Pittendrigh <sandy.pittendrigh@gmail.com>, Zheng Xu <zxu@wysebee.com>
- Cc: public-publishingcg@w3.org, public-epub3@w3.org, "Teixeira, Mateus" <mteixeira@wwnorton.com>, "Schindler Wolfgang Dr." <w.schindler@pons.de>
On Wed, 2022-08-10 at 17:31 -0600, Colin Pittendrigh wrote: > RE> 750mb file size limit. Bear with me. I'm a retired database > guy. > Why can't epubs be text only, with resource URLs to streamed images > and > video on remote servers? > > When I ask this question I'm invariably told "It won't work without a > wifi > connection!" So it won't work on the beach, or on the 'plane, or on a car trip... some of the many reasons ebook readers are so popular. And if you pay for Internet access by the kilobyte (not uncommon in this country) you get a sudden shock at the end of the month? No thanks. -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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