- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:12:04 +0100
- To: Bill McCoy <whmccoy@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
Bill McCoy, Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:04:27 -0800: > But when EPUB 3 is widely deployed it's > clear that the platform's native browser engine (e.g. UIWebView on > iOS) will be widely used under the covers by reading systems - it is > already is by Apple iBooks, Kobo, and VitalSource Bookshelf. That > strategy has allowed e.g. iBooks to move much faster, e.g. at the same > rate that WebKit's changed on iOS. FWIW, the IBA format is XML: ]] The output of iBooks Author is a proprietary Apple file format similar to the EPUB standard, but with extensions that prevent it from being universally readable or editable as an EPUB document.[10] The format uses undocumented, proprietary XML namespaces and undocumented extensions to CSS.[11] [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBooks_Author -- leif halvard silli
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