Meeting minutes
<Wendy Reid> date: 2025-08-26
PR 2776 - w3c/epub-specs#2776
<Wendy Reid> https://
<Wendy Reid> Discussing Gauthier's comments, wanting to move things into the authoring section of the document.
<Wendy Reid> Some discussion of extended description and what it means for FXL.
<Wendy Reid> Fallbacks and expectations of the reader/reading system. Different from the web.
<Wendy Reid> Tension of webbiness and epub, we want books to be more webby, but we also want the stability of the print book.
<Wendy Reid> Fallback as alternative, semantically feels wrong, providing an alternative feels like a different feature.
<Wendy Reid> Do we have known cases where people are using fallbacks as alternatives?
<Wendy Reid> Images in spine, tension of some people wanting this vs the need in the spec for the XHTML
<Wendy Reid> New ideas for fixed layout and comic rendering, JSON, etc.
<Wendy Reid> Need further discussion about fallbacks vs alternatives, do we need to explore the difference.
<Wendy Reid> Do we need to think about new features for a new EPUB vs EPUB3
<Wendy Reid> [Charles demos a DAISY tool called FIDO]
Fido's Github Repo: ways2read/
<Ken Jones> Link to TED talk mentioned by DaleRogers https://