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0 pointsforgotpwd163y ago0 comments

So you've some kind of problem with the implementation language? Because then you can say the same about any other. "Does it need to be written in Python?" "Does it need to be written in Rust?" What's even the point?

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nsonha3y ago

re-read what being discussed, someone said to display epub you need to able to render HTML, I said "but it does NOT need to RUN js". And then you were the person who brought up implementation language which happens to be js, which is irrelevant to the point everyone was making.

forgotpwd16OP3y ago

The OG comment mentions JS codebase being bundled to a browser engine. Then it's mentioned that it makes sense to do that. And then you specifically asked "does it need a js engine though?". For this specific app, the answer is yes. You cannot open an epub directly on browser and you need to parse it to do that. That somehow for this app is JS. If your question was whether epubs may contain JS then it's wrongly posed.

nsonha3y ago

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> Ebooks are basically HTML, so this is one case where bundling a browser engine is going to be necessary in any case.

and my point was contesting the statement that a full browser engine is necessary for displaying epub, the implementation language is not the point.

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nsonha3y ago

forgotpwd16OP3y ago

nsonha3y ago

I replied to this comment

> Ebooks are basically HTML, so this is one case where bundling a browser engine is going to be necessary in any case.

and my point was contesting the statement that a full browser engine is necessary for displaying epub, the implementation language is not the point.

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