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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It is HTML under the hood of ePub. You can easily screw up the format of HTML with CSS.
The problem is the publishers trying to make the eBook look like the pBook and failing because the pBook format does not work as an eBook in most cases.
What publishers need to do is make an eBook properly without trying to duplicate the pBook.
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I agree about the formatting of eBook properly. Issues like page sizes should be a non-issue with ebooks, and other things (like specific typefaces) shouldn't be hard encoded. Instead, just code in a general typeface (serif or san serif) and let the user choose the specific typeface and size (which seems to be the case with EPUB ebooks).
When I was referring to Basic HTML, part of it meant no CSS. I've looked into CSS and it is overly complicated. It has a syntax that is unrelated to regular HTML, which makes it confusing to handcode. I suspect that CSS was designed to not be handcoded, but to be created using an intermediary program.