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Originally Posted by 1611mac
How in the world does a "designer" (formatter) take into account the differences in all the readers???
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Personally, I say don't bother. Just get your book legible without visible text errors and laid out so that it's decently readable no matter what device/app people use.
If some of the hardware/software happens to be able to show nicer formatting than others (better CSS support or whatever), then that's a pleasant extra.
But like gracefully degrading backwards-compatible websites, don't try to code to meet any particular reader's quirks, much less drive yourself to distraction trying to make things look the same on all.
Just give the reader a good basic experience with maybe a few extra formatting niceties (embedded fonts, drop-caps via CSS) thrown in for the stuff which supports it.
Also, regardless of how reader apps look, a lot of the ePub supporting actual devices use ADE, which seems to be kind of consistent in its rendering (judging by how people complain about working around its quirks in the ePub forum).