Shaping the text

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Hitch

You have to except Amazon from that statement. They have religiously supported all of their devices, from the get-go. It's one of the reasons that I admire them, particularly compared to Apple, which epitomizes your model. They are extremely callous about their customers' expenditures.

Hitch

Sony did one better then Amazon. Yes, Amazon are supporting their older devices by keeping an obsolete format alive, but Sony shoehorned ePub into the PRS-500 so ALL Sony Readers supported ePub (anyone that did not get his/her 500 updated, too bad as Sony offered the update for free). Then Sony could do away with the LRS/LRX formats and concentrate on ePub. Given that Sony could get ePub to work on a 500, I don't see why Amazon cannot get AZW3 to work on the older Kindles and then they could dump Mobi for good.

[dgatwood]

Originally Posted by dgatwood

I was about to say that WebKit had no support for shape-outside yet, but apparently they added it (but only with -webkit) since I last looked. Cool. So with one extra line of code in my translator code, my books are going to look even better in iBooks.

Edit: No extra lines; just a slightly longer line. Done.

Curiously, even though it works in Safari in OS X v10.9, it doesn't work in iBooks. Digging through the binary, it looks like iBooks has a whitelist, and any CSS properties not on that whitelist don't make it through to the rendering engine.

The good news is that iBooks does support -webkit-shape-outside in OS X v10.10 and later.