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If you’re producing ePub files, take the time to ask yourself two simple questions:

Are all the files I listed in the OPF file actually in the ePub archive?
Are all the files in the archive in the OPF file?

The OPF file is meant to be the canonical listing of all resources in your ePub. If it’s [...]

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Using Flash video in ePub (14)
- Hamranhansenhansen: > Flash > QuickTime Neither of those are suitable, because they are proprietary to Adobe and Apple respectively, and so they are not supported on all platforms. In order...
CSS columns for ebook text (5)
- Liza Daly: Apparently getBoundingClientRect doesn’t work on the iPhone anyway (I remember experimenting with it ages ago; this may have been why I gave up on it.) c.f....
- Liza Daly: Oh no, I was experimenting with getBoundingClientRect based on finding it in your code (we only care about WebKit on the mobile devices). So far it was meeting my needs (paired with...
- Joseph: I agree — finding the real location of columned elements has been something of a frustration for Monocle too. GetClientRects is promising, but was still erroneous in the last testing I did...
- Liza Daly: Thanks for confirming!
- Marc Hansen: It works in the latest nightly build of WebKit.
Using HTML5 video in ePub (16)
- Liza Daly: Matt: It might work in other ereaders that are based on browser technology that happens to support the <video> element, but I’m not aware of any that do. (It may just happen...