Noriyuki Suehiro

Noriyuki Suehiro is an engineer working for Access. He has been working on NetFront Browser (a popular Japanese mobile phone browser), and recently NetFront Book Viewer, an ePub reader. He introduced NetFront Book Viewer at a Japan Electronic Publishing Association (JEPA) event. Currently he is also involved in Booker’s, a new e-book service.

Session: ePUB 3.0: The next generation e-book standard based on HTML5 and CSS3

The ePUB format is a standard for formatting electronic books, or e-books. The ePUB Technical Committee is currently working on the next version, ePUB 3.0, which is based on HTML5, CSS, and SVG, and is designed to be compatible with major browser engines. In this session, a panel of experts who are closely involved with ePUB 3.0 will discuss the format, and some of the problems and challenges involved in developing it. The session will pay special attention to issues of language support in ePUB, with a particular focus on providing vertical-text support — important for e-books in Japan, Taiwan, and China. These issues are currently being addressed by the Extended Global Language Support (EGLS) subgroup of the ePUB Technical Committee.