ePub package.opf generator
This is the first pass at a script to generate a basic package.opf file for epub3 ebooks using Python 2.X. What it does # When you run it from the root of your ebook, the script will create a...
Using media queries to handle HDPI screens
One of the things that I find infuriating about multi device development is that people can't seem to agree on a resolution or a device aspect ratio. This has become even more complicated with the...
Exclusions
I'm sad to see the potential of exclusions not being used. No browser vendor supports the complete exclusion specification. IE 10+ is the one that comes the closes but doesn't support the full set of...
Creating Print CSS stylesheets
Rather than adopt a paged media model for printing HTML5/CSS pages let's look at how to move our content to make for a better printing experience. The idea for this stylesheet came from Evernote's...
CSS shapes: an update and an expansion
CSS Shapes (spec) allow you a finer grained control of how you flow the text around shapes and images. Only Chrome and Opera (both using the Blink rendering engine) and the beta version of Safari (iOS...
CSS regions, part 2
The landscape for CSS regions has changed drastically since the last time I visited the technology. Since the last post about the technology (published in October, 2013) the following events took...
Subsetting Fonts
In creating ebooks we need to pay attention to files size... Modern fonts have many more characters than we use in normal books. Subsetting the fonts will allow us to decrease the size of the font by...
CSS Support and namespaces
There are two new @rules in CSS (well, they may not be new but they are new to me) that open an awesome set of possibilities for CSS development with or without a pre-processor. @namespace # CSS...
Quick and dirty ebook creation script
After creating all the content for an ebook there is still more work to do and I can't always remember the exact commands to run to finish the book. I do remember that I have to do the...
CSS Paged Media Update
Ever since I wrote my original research on paged media the specs have changed considerably. Here's an update based on the following specifications: CSS Paged Media Level 3 Working Draft from...