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Old 03-14-2014, 06:37 AM   #416
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Device: Sony prs-650, Kobo Glo HD (2x), Kobo Glo
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I'd say the creator of this ebook was extremely sloppy. Also keep in mind, that HTML 5 no longer supports the <font> tag and in HTML 4.0.1, using the CSS directives was preferred to separate markup and visual styling. The sloppiness is that the <font> tag is used to specify the font face, font size, and font color of text so a <font> tag without any specifiers is just a waste of space. I'd suggest using either Sigil or Calibre's editor to remove all the <font> and </font> pairs.

Now if we are going to discuss Kobo's habit of allowing breaks at tags, that's a whole different issue despite the specification seeming to indicate that this is allowed.

Regards,
David
I agree about the sloppyness, but it is in a lot of these books of the firm we called the central bookhouse who is almost the only distributing point in The Netherlands.
The Sony PRS-T2 has the same problem but they patched it and the PRS-T3 just works fine with it.
I agree there is a lot of not needed code in it, but there are also a very huge amount of people that say.. Sigil ??? ehh I can't open my book ( DRM ) or "what means editing ? "
For me it is no problem, just placed the replace code in the converting part of Calibre and done but we sometimes forget that 90% of the e-book buyers, with all respect, are just struggle to put the books on the reader, and don't understand anything we are saying here.
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