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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
ADE is the viewer used on most readers. ADE also has a lot of rendering quirks when it comes to rendering HTML+CSS. For a partial list of the more egregious ones see http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/ADEQuirks
calibre's EPUB viewer uses the WebKit library (the same engine used by Safari) to render EPUB files, so it will tend to support HTML+CSS much better.
If you can make test cases for each rendering bug in ADE and open tickets, I will try to code workarounds where possible in calibre's EPUB output. |
Thanks Kovid, I appreciate your response.
I've just worked out another possible reason - my EbookTemplate is HTML 4.01 Strict, and I found out yesterday that ePub is supposed to be XHTML 1.1 Strict. I understand that there are significant differences between them. Will this affect ADE or Calibre?
Anyway, it will be a while yet before I get an ebook reader which can read ePub, so I'll probably leave ePub for a while until I can get something with which I can test ePub books apart from ADE. And of course I need to find out how strict the requirement for XHTML 1.1 is.
Regards, Alex