Is it possible to publish an ebook for e-Ink Kindles (not Kindle Fire) that can run JavaScript inside the ebook?
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For the .mobi format it's impossible. – pts Oct 03 '13 at 19:35
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The features supported by E-Ink Kindles and Kindle Format 8 ebooks are documented in the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines which can be found here: http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines.pdf
The relevant part of the document is "Kindle Format 8 supports most HTML 5.0 features, although the following HTML features are not fully supported: forms, frames, and JavaScript."
In short, you can't use JavaScript in Kindle Format 8 ebooks.
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More specifically, section 6.3: Avoid Using Scripting: "Scripting is not supported. All scripts are stripped from the source during conversion." – neuhaus Jan 30 '20 at 10:24