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• Using Flash video in ePub (17)

  • Liza Daly: I first heard about the licensing issue here as part of the discussion about — what else? — video in HTML5: Dive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim.
  • Peter Collingridge: On licensing fees – it is my understanding that MP3 also comes with a license fee that has (at times) been recouped by the license holders. It may be ±2% of gross. That...
  • Dave Thomas: Be careful recommending H.264—you may be liable to pay royalties on paid content (and, starting next year, on free content) that includes H.264-encoded content. I’m no expert on...
  • 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...