Comment Re:PDF?! (Score 1) 114
Great. PDF. What's wrong with html?
HTML is markup language, not really supporting a good layout mechanism. (CSS allows formatting of text, but is not really designed to allow for complete control of the layout)
I think it would be about time to move on from pure HTML and not try to incorporate layout into a structuring language. Document structure could still be encoded in HTML, but do an open, simple, text-based PDF-type layout-language-standard on top of that.. (What about PostScript, I guess that's too cumbersome, or not cut out for this job?)
Granted, documents such as this don't really require fancy layouts, and would be okay in just plain old HTML, but they probably don't have the time to convert all their PDF's into HTML. (The PDF's are needed anyway for printed versions)
HTML is markup language, not really supporting a good layout mechanism. (CSS allows formatting of text, but is not really designed to allow for complete control of the layout)
I think it would be about time to move on from pure HTML and not try to incorporate layout into a structuring language. Document structure could still be encoded in HTML, but do an open, simple, text-based PDF-type layout-language-standard on top of that.. (What about PostScript, I guess that's too cumbersome, or not cut out for this job?)
Granted, documents such as this don't really require fancy layouts, and would be okay in just plain old HTML, but they probably don't have the time to convert all their PDF's into HTML. (The PDF's are needed anyway for printed versions)
