• WaDef7@kbin.social
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    I’m not sure I understand, epub is both the industry standard and an open format, as far as I know. Why not work on using it or build it around epub from the get-go?

    I have to admit I’ll have to wait for the project to start implementing epub to consider getting on board, but it’s still a great effort.

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      2 years ago

      It looks like it is powered by a microcontroller. Maybe it isn’t powerful enough to support epub?

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        It’s a 120mhz Arm CPU. That’s more than enough for epub. For comparison the 25 Mhz 68030 in the Next computer used Adobe Postcript (PDF) as it’s GUI.

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      Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser