Thread: What exactly are Standard Ebook's "advanced epubs"?
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Old 12-25-2020, 05:29 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
To disagree with Jon, at one time I downloaded half a dozen ebooks in all four formats (3 epub and 1 azw3). John W. Campbell and H. Beam Piper from the Science Fiction section.

Contrary to Jon's statement, none of the stylesheets has issues that would have ADE disregarding the entire style though they did have issues with epub types being used ( a[epub|type~="noteref"] as an example). The W3C validator wasn't happy with those entries or the adobe proprietary items but nothing that was a show stopper. When tested with ADE, those entries were treated as no ops which is the way they should be handled. The only difference in the kepub variant was the addition of the kobo spans. Erratically the logo and titlepage image files would be missing from one of the formats.

All three epub formats also had an onix.xml file which was correctly structured and compliant though I haven't seen any programs that make use of the ONIX metadata standard.

The stylesheets were not what I would consider elegant but they did work and were not overly complex. The three stylesheets clocked in at 130 lines, 20 lines and 105 lines.
They have changed things since the last time looked at the site before this thread was started. Have a look at the style sheet for McTeague by Frank Norris. The compatible ePub isn't compatible. The reason they are saying it's not compatible with Kobo is because the CSS has errors and isn't compatible with RMSDK.
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