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Device Tests Of Zak’s Dragonfly

August 24, 2019 10:19 BST

Coding a book layout in 2019 is like writing a website used to be in the early 2000s. Back in the day, each browser displayed whatever it wishes, CSS was just a wishful hint and everybody hated ie9. Nowadays, and I get the same pain doing a book layout that works consistently on iOS phones, Androids and Kindles.

After some research I discovered Blitz, a nice CSS framework for doing layouts in epub. What I’m trying to achieve with Zak’s Dragonfly is not too complicated. It’s basically a split-screen between the illustration on the left. This is going to be a heavily illustrated book (manga style), and I’m doing a certain trick with the portrait/landscape orientation of the device.

Image size is controlled with the font size. In the past I’ve often been annoyed by Kindle books that have fixed size illustrations and there’s no way to zoom up. So when I was writing the epub I was careful to avoid that kind of thing.

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