Re: [tdf-discuss] Question about proposing the creation of a new format

On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:19:50 +0200, CaStarCo <castarco@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a draft of the EPUB3 specification (
> http://idpf.org/news/epub-3-specification-public-draft-released ), I
think
> that this spec has many problems: 

Since this is a draft specification: has anyone tried sending comments?
(Unfortunately, I don't see a real *invitation* for comments, which is
unlike the process used for ODF, W3C specs, ...).

Best regards,

Christophe

> the capability of scripting (wich is
> potentially harmful), the low emphasis on semantic data (they use
metadata,
> but specially related to the book structure, not with its content), to
> forget the "3d models" type of media (epub3 "only" supports images,
video
> and sound, but not 3d models wich the user could explore), and the
absence
> of "profiles" (they talk about fallbacks, but only for scripting, not
for
> media content). I suppose there are good reasons to choose that spec and
> not
> an extended one... but at that moment, I can imagine which reasons are.
>
> I think that would be interesting to program an ebook editor, to promote
> the
> EPUB use over other privative formats. Many lacks of the EPUB format can
be
> covered with scripting, but hidding the scripting to the user, doing it
> automaticly behind the scene.
>
> If there are interested people, then I'm interested on helping working
on
> webkit integration.
>
> Kind regards
>
> 2011/4/25 Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com>
>
> > On 04/25/2011 11:11 AM, drew wrote:
> >
> >  However, should LibreOffice have support for producing documents
> > > targeted to eReaders? I don't know maybe, probably.
> >
> > I am not an expert on ebooks formats, but I know there are a lot of
> > efforts
> > around the ePub format to become a standard. Unfortunately, there are
too
> > many commercial interests around ebooks today for the development of a
> > real
> > independent standard.
> >
> > Anyway, should such a standard be defined and accepted, I would
> > personally
> > be in favour of supporting it, as documents are becoming more pervasive
> > than
> > in the past and in the future will be accessed through a multitude of
> > devices (many of them being mobile).
> >
> > Best regards, Italo
> >
> >
> > --
> > Italo Vignoli
> > italo.vignoli@gmail.com
> > mobile +39.348.5653829
> > VoIP +39.02.320621813
> > skype italovignoli

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