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In a discussion about ebooks on his blog
(http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/07/why-ebooks-are-not-like-paper-.html):
> Why ebooks are not like paper books
[snip]> Other key points:
>
> It's irrelevant in trade fiction, but epub 3.x permits embedding of
Javascript. Which means that technical books can contain anything, up to and
including a full i486 emulator running Linux. Or a Python interpreter. The LLVM
compiler can emit Javascript instead of machine code; arbitrary programs are now
embeddable in ebooks. This is going to revolutionize some aspects of publishing;
imagine a programming tutorial where the code examples are editable and
executable, inside the ebook.
-- Marshall
Marshall Clow Idio Software <mailto:mclow.lists at gmail.com>
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly
moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
-- Yu Suzuki
