|
Aww, I missed all the discussion my post provoked! I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but a few points anyway:
@netseeker: Sibling selectors mean that you need to keep the whole parse tree around to figure out the CSS rules which apply to a particular element. That's the big benefit of LIT's simplified selectors -- that the renderer can pick up at any arbitrary point given only the parent elements, access to which the container directly provides.
@Peter Sorotokin: By the time I got to the EPUB bit of the post I was running out of metaphorical breath. I did have in mind mostly the complexity of rendering and producing the layout of complex markup with complex styling (hence the contrast with Mobipocket), although the lack of seekable decompression in the ZIP format definitely does impose a size limit -- however large in practice -- which does not exist in formats which do have seekable decompression.
|