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If it renders fine in other readers, then it is the fault of ADE botching things. The problem is neither is really true, or useful. As pointed out above, ADE has some bugs, but that's not really important here, because the bugs will not usually make something "render fine" that shouldn't. But ADE has also some extensions (page templates, conditional CSS) that are outside the spec, and other apps are not botching anything by not supporting those. ADE has also its font and default settings that may be different from those used in other apps, and if a book relies too heavily on them it will break when put in a different app. What you could say is: if an ebook is valid ePub, then it's the fault of [whichever reader] not supporting it properly. But that's not really useful either. First, it's not enough that an ebook validates with epubcheck or flightcrow for it to be valid (validators have bugs and limitations too). And then, blaming a reading app doesn't help in making it work |
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11-26-2012, 09:08 AM | #18 |
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Given that most readers and some apps are using ADE, that makes ADE the most used to render ePub. So it's up the the non-ADE apps to be compatible.
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11-26-2012, 04:04 PM | #19 |
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Yes. Less-popular apps should definitely have to emulate the most popular app's interpretation of the epub specs. That makes perfect sense.
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11-27-2012, 11:00 AM | #20 |
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Only until they become the most popular app, then they can rule the world and do as they please
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11-27-2012, 08:32 PM | #21 |
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ADE is not that great, IMO.
From my experience, small caps didn't show up correctly in ADE, but they did in iBooks. On the other hand, a smiley face from the Wingdings font did show up in ADE, but not in iBooks; go figure. Even with the extra file for embedded fonts. Reading software is far from perfect. We're back in 1999 where the same web page looked differently in every browser. My advice is to try and stick to as plain e-book as possible, without fancy CSS that will most likely be interpreted differently on each device. Last edited by DSpider; 11-27-2012 at 08:41 PM. |
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iBooks doesn't count as it does a lot of things non-standard.
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11-27-2012, 09:20 PM | #23 |
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Of course it counts. People use it. If the inclusion of "non-standard things" was the determining factor for relevance, then ADE wouldn't likely "count" either.
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11-30-2012, 12:39 PM | #25 |
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Hit me with a link to that published ADE standard.
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