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• HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith available as an EPUB (3)

  • bowerbird: i’ll take a good hard look at it… -bowerbird
  • Liza Daly: Thanks! (It’s in the metadata, of course!)
  • Joseph: Aha! I had thought it was you guys, but I couldn’t find any credit in the book. Looks great!

• Test-driving Apple Pages with ePub export (28)

  • Frank Lowney: For my first test file, I used Apple’s sample page by saving it under a different name. The other technique suggested is to import the styles into a new blank template but that...
  • Richard Latimer: FWIW, I think: Within iBooks page breaks occur at the start of a new file. iBooks does not honor page-break-before or page-break-after attributes in CSS. So, to get a page break in...
  • Willem-Jan van Zeist: Funny thing, when I opened my exported epub in the Stanze app on my iPhone, I thought it didn’t work. Turnes out the .epub forces black text, which is difficult to see...
  • Walt Shiel: I guess I wasn’t clear in my comment that I was segueing into a side issue brought to mind by this new Pages feature. My complaint actually centers on things like Apple refusing...
  • Liza Daly: I’m aware of Atlantis and I’m glad it was mentioned here. However, it does not have the potential reach of a product by Apple or Microsoft in terms of getting ebook...

• JavaScript and interactivity in iBooks (35)

  • Liza Daly: Martin: You’re right, it shouldn’t work in Ibis as we do deliberately disable scripts. My comparison was based on the transitions that Ibis Reader uses for its own interface...

• Easier EPUB Experimenting and Updating in iBooks (9)

  • Julien: “Are DRMed books exploded and in plain text?” No, the DRMed books are exploded but individual chapter files are encrypted. Even the stylesheet is encrypted, and that’s a...