Hi jhowel,
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Originally Posted by jhowell
The end result is much more like a reflowable pdf than an html document.
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Yes, that explains the fixed height and width properties throughout. My guess (complete wag) is they map a reflowable epub into a size fixed to a specific device (or family of devices), handling automatic hyphenation (since the boundaries are now known), and then use webkit to effectively "print" it to a pdf-like format, and deliver that to your device. Kerning, ligatures, font metrics (known fonts!), hyphenation positions, Dropcaps, etc can all be worked out in advance in a fixed layout and converted into a form suitable for viewing. Then sell the whole pile as "Enhanced formatting" which is similar to what can be achieved in a finished format like pdf.
KevinH