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Old 09-17-2014, 06:46 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by mrmikel View Post
Epubs are not web pages. They are rendered a page at a time, so it has to be structured in a particular way to keep from blowing up. A web page keeps on going one and on and on and has access to a powerful computer to guess what the dopey programmer meant when they left off all the paragraph close tags.
Actually, they are just web pages. EPUB readers, however, are not web browsers. They're XHTML-only paged media viewers, which means that should behave like a web browser would if you were printing to a PDF (with a very small paper size).

The fact that they're XHTML-only means that they explode if tags don't match, but so do web browsers if you provide XHTML content with unbalanced tags.
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