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It's 2016, and these dead, flat, static PDFs are functionally identical to the paper they replaced!
There's a lot of value in static PDFs and how we format documents for publication. $CURRENT_YEAR doesn't invalidate good ideas from ($CURRENT_YEAR-n).
Just in terms of technology, static PDFs are:
- Easily distributed. - Easily archived. - Readable forever, even as platforms change incompatibly. - Readable on any device.
20 years from now, do you really want to have to run an old browser, or debug shoddy JS/HTML/whatever, just to read a paper from $CURRENT_YEAR-20?
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It's 2016, and these dead, flat, static PDFs are functionally identical to the paper they replaced!
There's a lot of value in static PDFs and how we format documents for publication. $CURRENT_YEAR doesn't invalidate good ideas from ($CURRENT_YEAR-n).
Just in terms of technology, static PDFs are:
- Easily distributed. - Easily archived. - Readable forever, even as platforms change incompatibly. - Readable on any device.
20 years from now, do you really want to have to run an old browser, or debug shoddy JS/HTML/whatever, just to read a paper from $CURRENT_YEAR-20?