What is "id=" For?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by theducks

But the question is: 'Do they really HARM anything?' They do add to the file size, but so does 14 screens of raves , excerpts from other work...
On a modern device, we may fit one less book (that I probably wont have time to read this year anyway).

We should worry more about things that don't work correctly like dead or wrong landing links.

It just means more work to clean up the mess that should never have been in the first place for those of us who do have a go at the code.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DaveLessnau

In my case, I'm mostly worried about what happens if I delete those ids. So far, I've had no problem deleting every id= thing I've found. Usually, those are just for TOC types of things. But, after ripping everything out of the files and putting the proper <h1> and <h2> tags where I need them, I have the Calibre Editor recreate the toc.ncx file and then have it create an inline TOC from that. I then replace the book's inline TOC with the Calibre generated one. Again, no problems yet.

Of course, some of the silly HTML I think I'm seeing does bother me and I do wish publishers would be a bit more reasonable in what they put in there. But, then again, I also wish they'd read and correct the resulting books after they OCR scan them to a digital format.

I've noticed that most IDs are of no use at all. And putting IDs in the ToC for not reason just slows down using the ToC. It's faster to just have the ToC just open the file instead of having to open the file ad then find the ID.