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The built-in widgets that provide the brunt of the interactive features in iBook’s textbook format do not use javascript in any way. Some additional reading before we dive into my short post… Daniel Glazman (CSS working group’s co-chair) wrote about iBooks Author and the format it generates: “iBooks Author, a nice tool but…” “Apple (re-)invented the Web totally incompatible with the Web. “ Turns out you aren’t allowed to sell the books you create in iBooks Author outside of iBooks: “The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA” . The Vook blog notices some of the same things I have: “iBooks 2 and iBooks Author: Another opportunity & headache” . “This is a proprietary file format that only plays in iBooks (edit: it’s not quite epub2 and it’s not quite epub3, nor is it quite XHTML5—plus the widgets are iBooks built-in components rather than open standards JS).”
The iBooks 2.0 built-in widgets
iBooks Author provides a variety of widgets that make it easy to add interactive objects to your book. Widget types include: Gallery: A sequence of images your readers can swipe through, each with its own custom caption. Media: A movie or audio file readers can play. Review: A sequence of interactive multiple-choice or drag-to-target questions.