Apple cripples iBook fonts
News Hardware
Designers of ebooks are starting to grumble about Apple's policy of locking down which fonts can be used on its iBooks platform. Apparently iBooks 1.1 won't recognise fonts applied with standard CSS to any body, p, div, or span element. Apple's guidelines say that designers choosing their own fonts would lead to "a bad user experience", a claim which some are calling shortsighted. Liz Castro from the enigmatically-named Pigs, Gourds and Wikis says that Apple is...
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