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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by swiley on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:02PM (#19824108)
HTML (sans javscript) would have been so much nicer though. All of the machine readable structure and separation of style from content would have been just absolutely wonderful.

But we'll never have that (not in the sense we have PDF.) Either it's an image or an application, no one really understands how to handle anything in between.

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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by aabbcc1241 on Sunday May 05, 2019 @01:43AM (#19831364)
And you can get better accessibility with html: reflow, adjust font size, adjust color, e.t.c. I only found a few PDF reader can display the content well on the mobile phone, but still worse experience when compare to the web.
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