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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Yes and it did work.
But, I've seen plenty of cases where things that could work, don't work because the code used is not correct for backwards compatibility.
Things like rem (instead of em) and vh/vw (instead of %) for example. The old software (for the foreseeable future) is not going away. So eBooks really do need to be made as compatible as possible.
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I'm glad you gave it a try.
And I agree, there's enough devices out there that use an older Adobe RMSDK that backward compatibility is important. But that doesn't mean we
always have to ignore code that isn't supported by older systems.
I mean, think about font-variant: small-caps! You can use it as a decorative element like a chapter lead-in where it's not critical mass that someone actually SEE the small caps. But if it
is important that a word or phrase be emphasized in some way, then you need a different approach.
The CSS hanging-punctuation property is another example. It'll be ignored by most every reading system, old or new, but there's one exception, it
is supported in Apple Books. And lots of folks have iDevices! So no penalty for using it, and some readers can enjoy the typography improvement.