Countless hours have been wasted breaking pages so they would display correctly in IE6 and not look odd in modern browsers.
Even Google's partner, Adobe Systems, admits as much on its blog (which has not stopped it from waxing lyrical about openness in an official press release).Google's e-books come in PDF (which preserves the precise appearance of pages as they were designed for print) or EPUB (which embeds text and images in sequence and has reader software or hardware massage line breaks, pages and pictures).
Without it, widgets may inadvertently break pages by using conflicting CSS selectors, class or id names, or JavaScript variables".
ZDNet found the ad blocker removed graphics that were not ads, breaking pages.
The spine is completely broken at page 476 and there are stains (suntan lotion? Coca-Cola?) on the pages, so I must have been enthralled.
The LaTeX system works in precisely the same way, except that code interpreted by the processing application consists of the text of the document to be created, with commands about how to display text, such as chapter headings, paragraph breaks, page dimensions, and type size and style.
Yes, there are repeats and top stories, but the names bleed on, page after heart-breaking page.
Shoppers from around the country waited until the middle of the night for sales only to experience broken checkout pages, emptied shopping carts, and login errors.
