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Originally Posted by PeterT
I came so close to mentioning media queries in my post but was afraid of being technically incorrect 
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Sooo...revealing my ignorance here... I thought media queries could only select a different image to display based on the query results - thus requiring multiple sets of the same images. I don't think they can actually change the rendering of a particular image, other than basic dimensions,/transparency/z-order etc., can they??
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Well, you can, for example (using a Kindle mq here) set the display of a given image to different sizes, based on the screen size of the device--which we use, for example, to target the difference between an iPad and a "real" Kindle. Or an eInk versus a tablet. It's tedious as hell, don't get me wrong, but it can be, and is, done.
And, in the circumstances we were discussing--rendering a specific image this way or that, due to which device it would be read upon--wouldn't using specific images for specific devices make sense? We do this, also, in MOBI, for the whole KF7/KF8 scenario--we set the size of images in pixels for KF7s and percentage of screen for KF8. It's not that different, really, from what we're discussing here. Yes, it would be far harder to try to target screen dimensions to make that equal certain devices, in the "world" of ePUBs, but it could be done, or at least, take a decent crack at it, I would think.
Just my thoughts on it. My point is, really, you don't have to "dumb down" for eInks, and I wish you guys wouldn't, as someone who reads almost
exclusively on one. :-)
Hitch