IBooks support on epub 3.0 with MathML?

Dear All,
Latest iBook App (V 1.2.2)release during April - Will iBook app support all features of ePub 3.0 standards ????? (rich media and interactivity, compatible with multiple devices, support for foreign language and non-Roman scripts and supporting design-intensive books, comics, and magazines).
I am eagerly waiting for the release of completed version of ePub 3.0 spec. To test them in my iPad.
Mean whlie; I started converting few test samples using working draft speciation of ePub 3.0 .release on 20110105 by IDPF
For example: MathML was embedded inside an ePub file and further updated the OPF file as instructed in IDPF-ePub 3.0 working draft.
We used iBooks v 1.2.2 to view the developed epub 3.0 file but we result with broken math content.(i.e. MathMLwas not rendered properly)
Then we used ibis Reader(PCversion) which rendered all MathML perfectly - please refer the screen shots
Now we would like to see the compatibility and rendered MathML when the ePub file is used in iBook app of iPad.; if so please help us to view our developed ePub 3.0 file.
Any help would be grateful
Thanks,
ROCXY.

zzou wrote:
Have you got an answer?
It's not possible to obtain answers from Apple about such things -- they never provide advance info about new features and do not respond to suggestions for them. If you want a feature, you should post feedback yourself. The more requests they get, the more likely it will eventually be adopted.

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