Re: d.p. releases first public draft of document on html "best" practices

James Adcock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.e-books.gutenberg.volunteers
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Well, just a quick scan shows that predictably, though I have been telling
them for years, they follow Marcello's lead in getting "@media handheld"
exactly wrong.

 

Ebook readers, including epub and mobi ebook readers are NOT "@media
handheld" devices because the epub standards committee has declared that
these devices are NOT "@media handheld" devices, rather only tinier and
weaker devices such as early PDAs [think "Plucker"] are "@media handheld"
devices.  And in fact "@media handheld" is not something that epub standard
devices respond to.

 

So this is another example of PG/DP implementing something which is
deliberately broken in order to assure that volunteers are writing something
which is gratuitously incompatible with the rest of the  world.

 

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Subject: [gutvol-d] d.p. releases first public draft of document on html
"best" practices

 

since nobody else seems to want to mention it...

d.p. finally released the first public draft of its 
long-awaited position on html "best" practices.
(read the thread to see why "best" is in quotes.)

>   http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=52308

since its release has been anticipated for so long,
it strikes me as being just a touch underwhelming.
but maybe there's more substance there than i see.

-bowerbird

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