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Originally Posted by phossler
Sigil seems to be a lot smarter that the epub readers that I can find, esp. ADE.
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Sigil uses a standard browser-like HTML renderer, which means that it will render many (most?) CSS features, including CSS3 ones.
That might be a good thing, especially when other epub readers do not support important features like
:first-letter of
font-variant.
But it's also dangerous to trust Sigil too much, as it will also (I believe) happily accept and render other properties that are not included in the ePub spec, and which should not be relied on in ePub books, like
text-transform or
opacity. Besides, not being a paged renderer, it will probably ignore things like
page-break-before or
widows (which ADE does, AFAIK), and it does not support ePub-specific stuff like
oep-page-head (not that many readers do, anyway).
In summary: If your goal is to see an ePub as it
should look, according to the specs, there's no known program for that. If your goal is to check how a book will look in an Adobe-based reader, there's no substitute for the device itself.