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Originally Posted by Quoth
Stupid arrogant assumption.
I did websites, inc server side as a paid job, ever since CSS existed, and stupid websites with static HTML before that. Also many more years real programming: in C, C++, Forth, Modula-2 and Java. Designed and implemented hyperlink systems before HTML existed (though didn't use Apple's Hypercard). Designed and built multimedia systems before ebooks existed.
But ebooks, even epub3 (of which there are broadly 3 kinds) are not websites or even web pages. The specs are a subset, and actual implementations vary from different to a subset
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Nor stupid, nor arrogant, not assumption. You know very few about css and xhtml for epub2/3. But that is not an assumption of mine, you yourself affirm it with the nonsense you publish. Everyone here realizes your skills, by reading what you write and seeing the code you advise. You can say what you want, but your facts speak for themselves and discredit your words.
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I do make mistakes.
ThingA: auto
ThingB: some value
You seem to think vice versa is
ThingB: some value
ThingA: auto
It's not. Vice versa would be
ThingA: some value
ThingB: auto
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Don't try to disguise the errors you proposed with pseudocode. You advised to use % for the height property. What a great expert you are! Why don't you post css and xhml code (code, not pseudocode)? You would shut my mouth and it would be the end of this exchange with a balance in your favor. You don't post code because you can't post it, because of that way everyone here could realize that what you proposed, what you propose does not work. When I post something and make a statement, I not only give the xhtml and css code, but I even include a sample epub. The entire forum here is witness to it. I don't offer empty words and code that doesn't work.
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KISS principle. Clever stuff breaks. You are a fanatic that would result in ebooks only working on a small percentage of actual retail users platforms.
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No, my ebooks can be opened in any epub ereader; if the ereader has support for epub3, then the human reader will have the best reading experience (no fragmentations, things perfectly centered horizontal and vertically, things justified vertically, full page images and tables, shape-outsided images, titles never so big nor so small, etc., etc., etc.). If the ereader doesn't have support for css3 properties, well, the epub3 code will be ignored and the user will have in his hands a good epub2 ebook. Of course, I have to work more.
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Are you a Moderator that you have the right to shut me up and close debate?
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No, you misunderstood me. I didn't say you don't respond to what I wrote. I said that when someone comes to MR for help, the best favor you can do is to avoid advising him/her. I have nothing personally against you, it just bothers me that you claim things that are not true as if it were the revealed truth.