HTML Cleaner

Epingsoft’s blog ever linked to the blog of htmlcleaner.com, now its blog has been setup on its own domain. Thus the blogs on the two domains will be seperated on their own field.
The blog here will concentrate on HTML Cleaner series, if you want to see the information of new products please visit www.epingsoft.com/blog

I think we are suffering from disunity among companies just like different browsers do to the same HTML and CSS standard.

Adobe and Apple implement and render ePub in different ways, cover is one case.
Adobe(and all devices based on its SDK) will ignore those code about cover and get cover from the first page automatically,
and they recommend user using SVG as cover image.
While Apple and some other devices only recognize just a defined cover picture(not a page).

So if you define the cover in tag, iPad will show it, but ADE not,
if you define the cover in the first page, iPad will not show it.
So you have to define the cover in both and the first page, but some eReader then will show the cover twice. a very annoying problem.

And I think ePub standard doesn’t state a clear, unique way of defining the cover, why just put cover so important a thing into a confusing tag, why not a tag like

Sullen for no proper browser to use these days.
IE is  troublesome, being carrier of or conspirator with malwares, I dare not use it.

Firefox, too slow on launching, I can’t wait.

Chrome, Flash cannot be disabled once it’s installed, shall I be forced to watch those overrunning advertisement on a page only contains some text I want? No.

Safari, forced font rendering, not fit for screen, we browse on screen, not on paper!

So I always use Opera, which can turn on/off Flash easily, even load/unload images as my will. This make me can surf through the sea of garbage and advertisements, catch those precious text exactly and fast.

I have been using Opera for so many years, but recently, I am getting in trouble with it. For more and more  complicated web applications  emerges, Javascript, the slowest, most inefficient language is abused everywhere. I can not turn off Javascript any more as before. And Javascript was the weak point of Opera, from 8.x to 10.5, always be. Opera’s Javascript engine is the slowest one among browsers.

Though We can condemn  those shabby web composer who are using new features unsupported by browsers and writing slow code exhausting users computer, but we cannot avoid them, which are more and more there. We can only reckon on browser with fast engine and smart handling.
But Opera made me disappointed. I just planned to succumb to the slow launching of Firefox, using Firefox more and leave Opera those pages not need of Javascript. I already began to use other browsers.

Yesterday, I gave a last glance on Opera’s official site, but to me surprise, I found there’s a new version, and there’s a line of “”
That’s what I need, that’s what Opera should have done months ago, great, I got it , at last.

At once, I downloaded and installed it. Wonderful, most problems resolved. I can visit Google smoothly, I can use applications, I need not wait, and there’s hardly 100% CPU usage on Javascript. Everything is good. Without hesitation, I uninstalled all previous Opera, 9,x,10.5, and  removed Chrome, Safari from my computer, I need them no more. Firefox remains, but seldom used, just for reference.

I feel I’m lucky being a user of Opera for some years, and my choice years ago on Opera, the smallest browser, now the fastest,  is right.

After half a year silence, HTML Page Cleaner renewed its improvement.

With our new technology on HTML to XML, HTML Page Cleaner was added with XHTML compatible options(default), so that it can be more easily imported into ePub maker as HTML materials.

But some difficulties,  such as overlapped elements,  it still has no ability to correct.

By the way, a long time bug inside the folder selector  has been corrected at last.

At the same time, we have reluanched and enhanced the filter function, which has been paused for a year, this powerful function will be embedded in a new edition of HTML Page Cleaner – Professional Edition.

Next month, you will see the power of HTML Page Cleaner Pro  in ebook preparing and making.

Yesterday, the new update of ePub Maker has been approved by Download.com.
ePub Maker 0.9 makes a great step, it produced ePub has passed the test on iPad and BN nook after imposing strict XML checking and modification on original HTML source.
So, I think this is the last beta version of ePub Maker, for it already can generate high quality ePub for real devices.
The standard version, 1.0, is planned to be released on next month.