alt Hacker NewsThe latter seems like what the tool's users actually want. That it's a harder problem doesn't change that.
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Finnucane • today at 2:54 AM
No, the users need to be able to check for conformance. What we also need is for vendors to supply test platforms. Amazon, to its small credit, does this, which is good, because the subset of html/css they support is limited and poorly documented. Heck, I'd be happy if Apple, Kobo, and everyone else just kept good documentation and up to date!
Though these days I have to spend more time worrying about EAA and ADA compliance than anything else.
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The user wants the website to work in IE6, developing and testing only against IE6 to the detriment of other browsers is not generally regarded as a healthy state of affairs.
The standard exists, it is the responsibility of both the producer and consumer of ePUB files to adhere to the standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle