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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Doing a little sum-up:
Do we agree that - regardless that they use *ML, as web page coders do - the makers of (both hard- & software based) reading systems completely failed to learn ANYTHING from history (see: 'browser wars') ?
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YES, absolutely, and in this instance, we have entities that weren't IN the browser wars--Apple and Amazon and B&N--so, no, why would they have learned jack? And Apple's arrogance about its walled garden is so complete that they simply do whatever they want. At least on the Amazon devices, regular, normal HTML/CSS works--you don't have to do daft stuff like put spans around elements to get them to center, etc. It's small comfort, but it's some.
And, YES, I'll say it before the tit-for-tat starts: yes, Amazon does not support all the HTML/CSS it "oughta." But at least, as I said, what it does support mostly works, and isn't misbegotten into some weird pretzel.
Hitch