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

On 10/31/2012 6:01 PM, James Adcock wrote:
>
> 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.
>

But it is *not* broken in PG-produced epub/mobi/etc., James.

It might be considered broken, I suppose, if someone were to take PG 
HTML and run their own conversion on it, in ignorance of PG's approach. 
Or if they were to take PG HTML and use it directly in an ebook reader.

But if they take our epub output they'll be just fine, because our epub 
output won't say "@media handheld" once epubmaker gets done with it. And 
if they are running their own conversions of PG books they should do so 
with some knowledge of what they look like.

-- 
Walt

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