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Aral Balkan

Your eyes haven’t bled from bad markup until they’ve glanced upon an ePUB exported from InDesign.

Screenshot of code starting with highlighted h4 tag: <h4 class="CHead"><em class="Emphasis">Mys</em><span class="NoBreak"><em class="Emphasis">tery</em></span><span class="NoBreak"><em class="Emphasis"> meat </em></span></h4><p class="BodyFirstParagraph">Every now and again, I come across an “alternative” navigation where a designer has decided they can subvert existing conventions and provide someone with a
#ePub#markup#InDesign
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@aral Ever seen the HTML produced by an MS Word export? Blood fountains from your eyes. I once cleaned up such a HTML, and the size of the resulting clean HTML was less than 20% of the original. They even used CSS classes, but then explicitly repeated their definitions every.single.time (like "<p class="foo"><font size…><font family…><b><i>blabber</i></b></font></font></p>", with "foo" of course having font size, family, italics, bold already).

But right, worse examples are no excuses…

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Aral Balkan

@IzzyOnDroid Yeah, I was exaggerating. I remember the Microsoft FrontPage days. *shudder*

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