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Originally Posted by Quoth
Ah, but how many people are not on "modern" CSS renderers or there isn't "scap" OpenType feature?
I understand what you are saying, but have you any idea how many people it doesn't apply to?
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Although I know there are many people who stick with older version of firmware, I learned from my first eReader (Onyx Boox) that CSS support is probably the most important thing overall, and without a doubt the most important once you open the book.
We all complain about how MOBI sucks because it had such reduced set of CSS available (and all had to be done with
style="" inside the tag. Yet, people seem more than willing to stick with older firmware that doesn't understand CSS that makes it much easier to have a well-formatted, easy-to-read book.
So, I really don't have a lot of sympathy for somebody still trying to limp along with 10-year-old eReader that hasn't had any firmware updates.
That said, small caps are just one of the many things that can be done in such a way that any reader with firmware from the past 3 years will do the right thing, and older readers will at least show the text, even if it isn't in uppercase letters that are smaller than normal. There's also options like CSS media queries, etc., that just aren't used at all by most commercial eBooks.