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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Advanced ePub is rubbish. It's not needed at all. It's just going to confuse a lot of people. What Advanced ePub is is ePub3 with no backward comparability. There's no need for it since the content is the same as the Comparable ePub. There is nothing advanced about it.
As for well formatted. Not at all.They have huge paragraph spaces and the section breaks are a full line going across the entire page. Then we have the text left justified. And the cover is not programmed to be displayed. So the first page is a titlepage. They look awful because they are awful. They really need to fix the formatting.
OK, I figured out why the formatting is so bad. It's because they have error(s) in the CSS and in that case. ADE ignores the CSS. This is why there formatting is lousy. They need to make the CSS actually valid. RMSDK (ADE) is the most used for displaying ePub and if they are going to botch the CSS, they may as well shut down until they learn CSS.
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SE Editor-in-Chief here.
ADE is the IE6 of ereaders. There isn't a whole lot we can do to make things look nice there. Fortunately fewer and fewer devices are shipping with ADE. Kindle of course uses their own renderer for mobi/azw3, and Kobo uses a very good Webkit-based renderer when using kepub files (but importantly, it defaults to ADE when using plain epub, versus kepub, files--that's why we tell people to transfer the kepub files to Kobo readers and not the regular epubs, otherwise ADE will make the ebooks look bad!).
Our CSS does not have errors. It is perfectly valid CSS and our epubs are perfectly valid epubs that pass epubcheck. The problem is ADE, which is an old and bad renderer that should be abandoned as fast as possible.