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Month: August, 2011

HTML5 drag and drop support now in Ibis Reader

HTML5 is a wild grab-bag of technologies. One of the lesser-known bits at the bottom of the bag is the drag and drop API. This allows you to physically drag files from your computer into a browser page, and have the browser do something with the file (typically upload it).
If you’re logged in to [...]

Better support for Unicode characters in EPUB validator

We’ve fixed a long-standing limitation in the online EPUB validator that prevented files with non-ASCII characters from being validated. (The bug was actually not in our code but at a lower level; I’ve posted a fix that simply works around it.)
If you had problems before receiving “Site error” when uploading an EPUB with accented [...]