On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
Most people who have used an HTML browser for a while, HAVE fiddled with their browser, for example by setting their preferred text size. When the author of a PG HTML in turn fiddles with these factors, those fiddles override the fiddles already fiddled with by the reader.
Not if it's handled well. I'm asking for nothing more than every other webpage has. Given that every other page on the web actually does have margins, and that pages without margins are unreadable in the modern webbrowsing environment, that doesn't strike me as an argument against PG documents having margins.
whereas another 30% of the HTML written for PG is translated into EPUB format and read on EPUB devices ... And another 30% of the HTML written for PG is translated into MOBI file format and read on MOBI devices [aka: Kindle]
And perhaps that means that we need to start making different formats for different needs, or do this in a standard way so it can be removed for non-HTML devices. Stop sacrificing my needs for theirs; make a way they all can be satisfied.
Suggestion: It is NOT the job of a person creating HTML for PG to do the fiddling in order to make some particular hypothetical PG user's life supposedly easier.
Then why are we creating HTML anyway? They can learn to interpret our cryptic symbols; it's not easy, but making them do the hard work is what PG is all about, isn't it? It's all about getting our books read; and that means making them easy to read. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.