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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 03:07:07 JST Aral Balkan

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

   #ePub #markup #InDesign #XHTML #HTML

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 03:32:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Aaron In Minnesota

     @aeischeid Sorry. I did warn you, though :)

   • Aaron In Minnesota (aeischeid@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 03:32:14 JST Aaron In Minnesota

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     @aral why would you do this to me?!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 07:34:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     • IzzyOnDroid ✅

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

   • IzzyOnDroid ✅ (izzyondroid@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 07:34:13 JST IzzyOnDroid ✅

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     @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…