: Re: Which major eBook reading applications support JavaScript? I've been trying to find an eBook reader for Windows that fully supports EPUB3 (i.e. allows JavaScript) but I've had no such luck. So

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As far as I know, the major ebook reading systems don't support scripting even though it's in the epub3 (and 3.2) spec. You might want to check the reading systems which are targeting academic textbooks. I think that interactive quizzes will be the best use case for javascript in ebooks. Future versions of the spec will try to merge the browser experience with the book experience, so I think it's inevitable that it will happen, though you need to do fallbacks, etc.

The e-ink reading systems are pretty minimal, so it would be hard to upgrade them to support scripting. Also, educational publishers are more likely to build their own apps than to create content with scripting and beg the major reading systems to support that feature.

One thing I'd check is whether the content creation tools specific to a reading system have some built in scripts (like ibooks-author). Ibooks have certain interactive widgets which might accomplish what you want. Of course, that means you are designing for a single platform only.

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