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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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