Amazon has announced HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8
Amazon has announced an update to the Kindle file format - Kindle Format 8 (KF8) - including many HTML5 tags and CSS attributes.
As showcased on Kindle Fire, KF8 enables publishers to create great-looking books in categories that require rich formatting and design such as children’s picture books, comics & graphic novels, technical & engineering books and cookbooks. Kindle Format 8 replaces the Mobi format and adds over 150 new formatting capabilities, including:
- Scalable Vector Graphic
- CSS3 support
- Fixed layouts
- Embedded fonts
- Drop caps
- Floating elements
- Text on background images
- Numbered and bulleted lists
- and more!
The full list of new tags and such can be found here.