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Originally Posted by Doitsu
Kindle apps and readers actually support only a very limited subset of CSS3 and KDP authors are restricted to the selectors listed in appendix C of the Kindle Publishing Guidelines. (For some examples, see this post.)
BTW, the author of the Blitz framework uses Less to generate Kindle and EPUB stylessheets. |
Right--none of which deals with bootstrap or (CSS3) columns, if memory serves. (Hell, KF8 still states it doesn't support max-height or width!). But you can create colored borders, bygod.
Anyway...I just
don't see bootstrap coming to eReaders anytime soon. I wish it would, for tabular content, but...when you think about it, if you were trying to do something like newspaper columns, oy! That could end up rendering very, very badly, with large font sizes and small screens...
If you think about the purpose of Bootstrap--it was originally designed for Twitter, for whatever reason, and then came to encompass websites. It was meant to allow websites to work in such a way that a very wide website, with tons of content, that would be unreadable on a smartphone, could function effectively in "columns," so that it would be readable.
eBooks don't really have that problem. I mean, first...they're books. They're not multi-column content spread across a website. Most book content isn't columnar--it's a single, vertical stack column.
I can see that Bootstrap would be nice for, say, a coffee-table book that has columnar material. But for now, you have to do fixed-layout and zoom. That's the reality. For most books, though, there is zero need; Bootstrap-type coding wouldn't be needed. If I had to guess, I'd guess we're talking, what, 1-2% of all books, at the absolute most, that
might be able to make use of something like Bootstrap?
Doits, DNSB, what do you think? Am I underestimating how many books could use Bootstrap? I guess that there are heavy-content textbooks that could use it, possibly, but most of those are a vertical stack, as well.
Hitch