[Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver - Page 200

jgoguen · Yesterday, 11:20 PM

This looks different from the example in the book I looked at. This seems to be making paragraph lines (or a fake list) indented, which I may not like visually but off the top of my head I expect what you show in the image could be done without god-awful markup and questionable CSS choices. I'd prefer to see it done with <ol> or <ul> and styling the <li>, but there are other clean ways to do it. Just my own personal preference not liking how this looks rather than a final product that makes me question how much the publisher actually knows about HTML or CSS.

The book example I was commenting on is a case where a <dl> is both a clean and natural choice. The <dt> in that case would be the name of the speaker and the <dd> would be the text. Style it to float the <dt> to the left at some low percentage width and <dd> to the right at remaining width and you've got the same effect with much cleaner markup and CSS.

Quoth · Today, 07:57 AM

using <p> with suitable classes is more reliable and can exactly duplicate ol ul li etc, which are needed for server side auto-generated content from a database, or a convenience. They are not needed at all in ebooks.

No need for dd or dt and float is best avoided in ebooks.

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Yesterday, 11:20 PM	#2986
jgoguen Generally Awesome Person Posts: 1,069 Karma: 2178845 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: /dev/kmem Device: Kobo Clara HD, Kindle Oasis	This looks different from the example in the book I looked at. This seems to be making paragraph lines (or a fake list) indented, which I may not like visually but off the top of my head I expect what you show in the image could be done without god-awful markup and questionable CSS choices. I'd prefer to see it done with <ol> or <ul> and styling the <li>, but there are other clean ways to do it. Just my own personal preference not liking how this looks rather than a final product that makes me question how much the publisher actually knows about HTML or CSS. The book example I was commenting on is a case where a <dl> is both a clean and natural choice. The <dt> in that case would be the name of the speaker and the <dd> would be the text. Style it to float the <dt> to the left at some low percentage width and <dd> to the right at remaining width and you've got the same effect with much cleaner markup and CSS.

Today, 07:57 AM	#2987
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,837 Karma: 87663463 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	using <p> with suitable classes is more reliable and can exactly duplicate ol ul li etc, which are needed for server side auto-generated content from a database, or a convenience. They are not needed at all in ebooks. No need for dd or dt and float is best avoided in ebooks.