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fb2(stands for FictionBook) is an XML-based format, mostly popular in Russia[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fic
by dartf 8y ago
fb2(stands for FictionBook) is an XML-based format, mostly popular in Russia[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook
- robin_reala 8y agoThanks, I’d not heard of it before. I guess EPUB’s got a while to go to cover all niches.
- otabdeveloper1 8y agoEPUB can't cover this niche. EPUB is basically just HTML in a zipfile, with all the ugly warts that HTML comes with. (Attempts to enforce "pixel-perfect" design, broken accessibility, ugly fonts forced on you, etc.) EPUB is good for publishers, I guess, but a crappy ebook format. FB2 is a different beast, it's an extremely minimal XML dialect that encodes only semantic information and nothing else. (Basically, tags for chapters/sections/headings/verse and that's about it. The extent of the formatting allowed is 'em' and 'b' tags.)
- darkpuma 8y agoYou can create your own clean minimalist epubs. None of that cruft is mandated, you can simply choose to not use any of it. Don't want to enforce a font? Don't specify one. Don't want a stylesheet? Don't put one in.
- robin_reala 8y agoPresumably the problem here is restraint? I contribute to Standard Ebooks that uses EPUB3 as a core format. That’s based on HTML5.2 but our books have clean code, minimal styling and as good accessibility as we can make (we’ve had a couple of reviews of the core accessibility functionality and fixed any problems that came up).