Is there a list of CSS/ePub features/tags that iPhone Stanza does/doesn't support?

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:35 — kjk

I'm trying my hand at hand-built/hand-edited ePub files, and am having some issues with some tags/features that don't work/are overridden by iPhone Stanza's settings (mostly left/right/justify). Is there a list somewhere of what CSS tags Stanza iPhone is ignoring/recognizing?

Stanza Support

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 10:00 — support

There is no official list,

There is no official list, but generally any option available in Stanza's preferences (font face, size, justification, paragraph spacing, and colors) will always override those defined in the ePub book.

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 21:47 — kjk

So, the question I guess is,

So, the question I guess is, why? The iPhone can adaptively display multiple fonts, sizes, justifications, colors, and paragraph spacing (i.e. Webkit, Safari, etc.). Why would Stanza get rid of it all? Stanza's default format, ePub, is an incredibly flexible format, and can scale, reflow, and adjust to different sized screens, from the iPhone to a 30" display.

And the tags or the now deprecated tags actually do override Stanza's font size settings.

So I can control font sizes thru the tags as specified thru CSS, but I can't control justification-it seems to center all tags regardless of Stanza's settings. So, Stanza's controls ARE overridden for SOME of the CSS settings, but not all.

It all just seems rather random, and makes trying to create/edit new content for Stanza iPhone very frustrating, especially since the ePub format has such flexibility and power (as does the iPhone display).

Tue, 10/20/2009 - 13:36 — dillo

It also breaks existing content.

Not only does it make creating new content difficult, it also breaks the layout of existing context, and one is never quite sure what is missing. I would really like to see better CSS support in Stanza (maybe disabled via an option for readers that don't trust their books). The things I noticed missing are font size, text justification and page breaks. Any way we could see them added?

thanks,
dillo

Tue, 10/20/2009 - 19:15 — kjk

Yes, I'd love to see a more

Yes, I'd love to see a more ePub compliant reader. We know its not a limitation of the iPhone itself, as it can display just about anything an ePub can.

What is interesting to me though, is the "Display Styles" option in Preferences-to me this seems like the place where Stanza can turn on or off CSS interpretation if the reader wants simple text files instead of styled documents. But it doesn't seem to do that much on my documents.

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 18:24 — support

The "Display Styles" setting

The "Display Styles" setting is there to disable all book-specific styles, but Stanza's style settings will themselves always be used. Regardless of the value of that preferences, Stanza's user-settable settings will always override those set in the book. The philosophy is that the reader's preferred settings should always trump those set in the book. This has served us well thus far, since we've found that different readers vary greatly in how they want their books displayed. However, we are considering adding a "Default" setting for most of the preferences, which would fall back to using those values for the book's CSS.