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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
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Originally Posted by u238110
Totally agree with you about tables. E-readers need to improve. A simple side-scrolling feature would take care of the issue, would it not?
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Heh, never going to happen. (At least I don't see it happening in the current generation of ebook formats). :P
And you have to keep in mind the MILLIONS of ereaders out there that don't have that functionality.
And then you have to keep in mind people making the FONT SIZE HUGE, and breaking/overflowing even the most basic of HTML tables.
It is one of the reasons why when we convert to ebooks, we try to "verticalize" the tables. An informal rule that gets passed around is try not to go past "4 column" tables. There is much more vertical real estate than horizontal on ebook readers.
There are SVG Tables as well. MikeWV brought it up recently, and there was some discussion/examples:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=240980
Now, while that SVG is vector, and DOES look nice (and can scale to fit the entire screen). While theoretically, this would be WAY better than either HTML or bitmap images... sadly, the documentation/support in ereaders is crappy. (I am also not too sure how accessible it is, or how well Text-to-Speech software would handle it).
It would also require a massive amount of testing on a multitude of different devices. For example, as MikeWV figured it out, turns out that Kobo had some weird bug with rendering the fonts in his SVG. |
Kindle Paperwhite has this type of side-scrolling feature.