Deurbanising the Web

[Devin Prater]

Also, EPUb files are almost always accessible. Of course there are comic
books and such that are images, but EPUB files are great! One can even read
them in Emacs with Nov.el (Nov-mode).
Devin Prater
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:38 PM Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> wrote:

> On 2021-07-19 10:05AM, Jason McBrayer wrote:
> > For a similar subset of problems, ePub is a great option, and far, far
> > better on small screens, but since ePubs are, at base, zipped folders
> > of HTML files, you still have a subset of the "why not a subset of
> > HTML" problem. I'm not 100% sure how restrictive the ePub
> > specification is, though, so it might not be a real problem at all.
> I think a well-formatted EPUB is the best format for rich-text document
> storage and transfer.  Bad EPUBs are just as bad as bad PDFs, but good
> EPUBs (I point to Standard Ebooks[1] as the best EPUBs ever produced)
> are easily renderable and customizable.  EPUBs have lots of semantic
> markup to allow for very rich rendering (but can also be mostly ignored
> for simple readers), and as long as you use strict XHTML then the
> software doesn't have to have tag soup parsing or anything like that.
> Plus, unlike the Web, ebooks' CSS is more of a "suggestion" that is
> usually overridden by the ereader, and mostly exist as sensible defaults
> when the ereader had no specific preference configured.
>
> ~nytpu
>
> [1]: https://standardebooks.org/
>      And their toolchain and templates are CC0 so you can make your own
>      Ebooks with their quality!
>
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