Probably because the computational hardware is not powerful enough to implement a (proto) web browser
Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader
WaDef7@kbin.social 6 months agoI'm not sure I understand, epub is both the industry standard and an open format, as far as I know. Why not work on using it or build it around epub from the get-go?
I have to admit I'll have to wait for the project to start implementing epub to consider getting on board, but it's still a great effort.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s a raspberry pi. It can work with it on the new version.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It said it’s a 120mhz SAMD51 ARM Cortex-M4.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s a version with the pi pico github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
runefehay@kbin.social 6 months ago
It looks like it is powered by a microcontroller. Maybe it isn't powerful enough to support epub?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s a 120mhz Arm CPU. That’s more than enough for epub. For comparison the 25 Mhz 68030 in the Next computer used Adobe Postcript (PDF) as it’s GUI.