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Originally Posted by ElMiko
@JSWolf - Yeah, I'd be curious to know who is the criminal responsible for this, too. Frankly, the books I've seen with this not only are guilty of the div/span coding, but also the css is usually ridiculously bloated. Like, multiple classes that are different from eachother only in the most marginal sense—think "margin: 0 1px;" vs "margin 0 2px;" or "font-size: 1.0em;" vs "font-size: 1.00012583em". In retrospect, those ridiculous decimals should have been a dead giveaway that it was a program, not a person. (although the designer presumably WAS a person, and deserves a jail sentence)
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A font size like you've specified is usually from InDesign. You sometimes numbers with fairly small decimals.
As for the CSS being bloated, it's because these publishers just keep adding to the style sheet. It's very easy to remove any unused classes. But they won't do that. I do that and sometimes I see over 100 unused classes. It's ridiculous.
I think the publishers need staff who can make sure the eBooks are good to go both for the code and the formatting.