Unofficial first look at EPUB3, the next revision of the EPUB digital publication format standard. Presentation from Books in Browser event (San Francisco, Oct 21, 2010)

1. EPUB3: First Look Bill McCoy CEO, WebPaper Secretary, IDPF EPUB Working Group

3. Based on Web Standards ( “shrink-wrapped” XHTML)

4. Portable Document Format, not Paginated Document Format

5. Collaboratively developed, fully open standard

6. IDPF includes publishers, vendors, libraries, accessibility community

7. Rapid adoption by the publishing industry since 2007

9. HelloWorld.epub= 4 files zipped in a Byzantine manner)

10. Under-specified content & Reading System conformance requirements

11. Test suites lacking and lagging

12. Incomplete support by authoring tools and Reading Systems

13. Browser-based Reading Systems were not top of mind

14. Missing important features

16. Second F2F meeting Oct 18-20 in San Francisco

17. 45 attendees

18. Global representation (Japan, China, Taiwan, …)

19. Browser-based Reading System issues front & center

20. Several WG members here at BiB

22. Declarative event triggers (custom controls w/out JavaScript)

23. Audio can be synchronized with text

24. SMIL & CSS Speech subsets

25. Embedded font support a conformance requirement

26. OpenType / WOFF

28. Full HTML5 can be used for scripting-enabled content

29. Enhanced global language and styling support

30. Writing modes inc. vertical, Ruby

31. CSS3 Modules: Multi-column, Media Queries, Hyphenation

32. Improved metadata capabilities

33. Simple schema for dictionaries & glossaries

34. MathML support+ Tighter specification and conformance requirements

38. December 15 – Second Internal Working Draft

39. January 29– First Working Draft (complete, stable)

41. http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision

42. Help us finish the spec!

43. Implement early support for EPUB3 in your solution

44. Become an IDPF member

45. Questions?

46. bmccoy@webpaper.net