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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by dingo_bat on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:52AM (#17227800)
It'd be a little hard to show a PPT without some js viewer.
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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by realusername on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:15AM (#17228535)
How so? the arrows could just point to the next page, there's zero interactivity on that PPT.
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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by dmitrygr on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:04AM (#17227850)
If only we could invent a way to show static documents reliably. We could call it, say, a Portable Document Format. And we could have a reader for it that anyone could install and see said document. Hm, what a world that would be.
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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by engi_nerd on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:19AM (#17227953)
If only PDFs were purely static
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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by quadrangle on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:06PM (#17230393)
or maybe some sort of "markup" that merely needs to be rendered without running any accessory program code?
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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:52AM (#17228268)
PDF is a proprietary format. Is it really considered better than JS?
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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by blub on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:54AM (#17229117)
PDF is an ISO standard, it's not proprietary.

And yes, it's better than whatever JS is cobbled together for presentations, of course, it was designed for documents, not blinking things on the screen :)

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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by vram22 on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:10PM (#17233471)
Yes. It became an ISO standard (ISO 32000) in 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#History_and_standardizatio...

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Re:Chris, Nat and Satya's Calldeck Regarding Microsoft and G... by computerfriend on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:55AM (#17229128)
That hasn't been the case for many years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

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