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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Actually ADE in the mobile version is used by a majority of devices including Nook and Sony as well as many others. Adobe is the leading supplier of code for mobile devices.
Dale
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It sounds reasonable in theory. ADE and most readers are based on Adobe SDK.
But in reality, they are quite different on many respects. They share the same bugs of Adobe SDK, but each of them has particular bugs and advantages of their own.
For example, Nook has no landscape mode, so test on ADE can not reveal true user experience of your book on Nook.
Such as TOC, ADE has a side TOC tree, but such things doesn't exist on most real devices. Tree are not supported at all.
And Nook has several font choices which you can not test on ADE, so you must test on Nook to see real effect of those fonts.
Furthermore, if there's error in CSS, epubcheck doesn't report it, and ADE can ignore it, but on Nook, it crashes.
So
only real device test is reliable.