Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 5:42 AM UTC

nsonha wrote: post #41

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you've some kind of problem with the implementation language? Because then you can say the same about any other. "Does it need to be written in Python?" "Does it need to be written in Rust?" What's even the point?

re-read what being discussed, someone said to display epub you need to able to render HTML, I said "but it does NOT need to RUN js". And then you were the person who brought up implementation language which happens to be js, which is irrelevant to the point everyone was making.

Post by nsonha » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 6:15 AM UTC

forgotpwd16 wrote: post #43

nsonha wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

re-read what being discussed, someone said to display epub you need to able to render HTML, I said "but it does NOT need to RUN js". And then you were the person who brought up implementation language which happens to be js, which is irrelevant to the point everyone was making.

The OG comment mentions JS codebase being bundled to a browser engine. Then it's mentioned that it makes sense to do that. And then you specifically asked "does it need a js engine though?". For this specific app, the answer is yes. You cannot open an epub directly on browser and you need to parse it to do that. That somehow for this app is JS. If your question was whether epubs may contain JS then it's wrongly posed…

Post by asicsp » Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 10:02 AM UTC

ObscureScience wrote: post #45

asicsp wrote: post #10

Foliate works great for reading fiction. Customization for theme, font, etc, were nice. I use Atril Document Viewer for technical epubs though - feels much like viewing a PDF.

I got kind of annoyed that the headings are not part of the color schemes, and for me they always stay dark red, which is pretty unreadable in dark themes and looks bad in many light ones. Using the flatpak version.