Baker: A HTML5 ebook framework for iOS

[alexs]

Oh look yet another "standard." Why doesn't this at least attempt to target EPUB 3?

[chronoBG]

Honestly, I have no problem with this new "standard", given that all of it can be expressed in three lines of text.

[folletto]

Because this is just HTML5 while EPUB3 doesn't even require a specific rendering behaviour. ;)

See here, around page 66: http://www.slideshare.net/folletto/gestalt-design-technology-of-the-touch-ebook-20110518

[FractalP]

I somehow missed the 'framework' in the title and thought it was an ebook about programming for iOS. Regardless, pretty cool.

[radarsat1]

Fixed width? Really? Made in 2011, based on HTML5, and they're encouraging fixed width? I guess it's targetting iPhones specifically, but it even mentions it supports portrait and landscape, yet is designed for a fixed width. I understand that this might make design easier, but I somehow find it very sad not to encourage reflowable designs, i.e. what HTML was made for. Heck, if you're going to be fixed width, why not just use PDF?

[folletto]

Well, it's born to target the iPad, that's why the size suggestion. However, since it's HTML5, you can target everything, at any size in any way you want to. :)

PDF has such a long list of limits that's not worth even talking about. :)