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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If readers supported it, I think the ePub 3 spec was working towards incorporating multi-media.
Personally, I'd rather the ePub consortium concentrated on improving the typography support, and left audio-visual media with text to another format.
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Also most physical ereaders only support non-multimedia aspects of epub3. Is there more than one Android app with full epub 3?
Agree totally. The epub3 seems to be to support fixed layout (better done by a PDF for more people) and multimedia, which is better supported by app engines / multimedia authoring.
I'd have rather have seen the epub people support client side image maps (really simple HTML) and sections of the book only accessible via links.
I can't see the point at all of expanding epub to fixed layout or multimedia as neither of those work on eink and fixed layout needs a 10
" or larger tablet or PC, in which case PDFs are better for fixed and multimedia is trivial.
As an experiment I plan to load up an early 1990s CD on the tablet as a file in Flash, running on DosBox. Just out of curiosity. I might obviously need to connect a mouse and keyboard via USB hub and USB2Go. I find the BT keyboards/mice poor compared to proprietary Wireless or USB versions.
About 13 years ago I ran the Adventure Game for PC Beneath a Steel Sky on DosBox on Symbian 60 on an Nokia phone with a small display and keypad. It didn't work any worse than on the PC.
Edit: I have a full Win 3.0 in real mode running on DosBox on Windows and Linux. About 2s to 4s loading time!