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Picsel HTML File Format Support
ePAGE supports the most popular global file formats. The formats
interpreted by ePAGE are richly expressive, containing not just text but
sophisticated layout and rendering features, rich fonts, colour, images,
tables, graphics and many other document features. Picsel is
continuously developing its file format support to eventually cover every
feature of the native file. With such a wealth of features across many
document types, this is inevitably an ongoing process, with milestone
releases of new functionality planned at periodic intervals. The
approach involves researching the feature set most commonly found in
real documents, building support early for the most frequently used
elements, and ensuring these features are reproduced with total
faithfulness to the original. The emphasis of ePAGE is on displaying rich
content rather than on reproducing the document creation facilities of
the original application.
This document describes the features supported in ePAGE. This level of
support already covers the vast majority of characteristics that occur in
day to day documents of this type, and the specific features are
described with notes where appropriate. Those features planned for
future implementation are also described, for completeness.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language is used for the text and structure of web
pages on the World Wide Web. It was originally designed to represent
scientific papers in a form that allowed different organisations to print
them in different styles, but has since been extended to cover formatting
and page layout issues, and of course to include pictures.
HTML is easy to write. Even relatively non-technical people can write it
directly into a text editor, including hypertext links to other pages,
references to images, document formatting, colours, and other details.
Unfortunately, decoding it is more difficult as there are many small
errors which are interpreted in certain ways by popular software, and
have become assumed to be part of the standard.
Feature
HTML 3.2 and earlier
HTML 4.0
Unclosed tags
Tags in wrong context
Invalid attributes
Missing required tags
Support Notes
Yes
Yes Many extensions
also supported.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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