From: Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: HTML output
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:08:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5123BFA2.1040101@meahan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130219142235.GB3733@homerow>
On 02/19/2013 09:22 AM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> Within the limits of CSS you obtain a quite close match¹. But it's
> up to you to create the matching CSS.
>
> Marco
>
You can do a pretty good job of matching the printed page with HTML5 +
CSS3 here's a good reference:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
Unfortunately, implementation of these standards is a bit spotty. The
problem is in the browsers. Chrome/Chromium has done the best job of
implementing HTML5 to date, IE the worst. with Firefox and Safari in
between.
Similarly, EPUB (based on XHTML) is in a similar situation. EPUB3 is
based on HTML5 while EPUB2 on XHTML1.1 The corresponding CSS support
tells you how well most e-book readers handle the new format. At the
moment, there is very little support for EPUB3 in applications and
dedicated readers (Kindle, Nook & al.)
It's best if you design your document with these formats in mind or put
up with how your document is rendered.
As a not-very-good fallback, you can always convert your document to
PNG/JPEG images and use HTML to simply display them in the proper order.
--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-19 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-19 14:05 Troy Henderson
2013-02-19 14:22 ` Marco Patzer
2013-02-19 18:08 ` Bill Meahan [this message]
2013-02-19 19:09 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2013-02-20 14:40 ` William Adams
2013-02-19 18:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
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