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.

From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Bowerbird@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:07 PM
To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org; bowerbird@aol.com
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