EPUB and HTML – Survey results and next steps

After reviewing and discussing those results we have decided that we will not add HTML to EPUB 3.4.

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• The survey results were invaluable in helping us come to this decision, and we deeply appreciate everyone who took the time to share and respond to our survey.
• We received compelling feedback both for and against the change.
• We know that our decision is going to make some people very happy and some people very unhappy, and we wanted to share how the feedback influenced our thinking, and what we want to…
• Before diving into the survey results, one thing we want to make clear is that the door is not closing on HTML and digital publications.
• In fact, the responses provided us important information that helped us realize that we need to take a new approach, one that I hope the community will consider supporting us in.

Resumen

We received over 100 responses from publishers, tool developers, reading system developers, independent authors, ebook retailers, social DRM providers, conversion vendors, distributors, and readers.

Fuente: W3C