> These all seem like technical quibbles that miss the point.
If these all "miss the point", what is the point?
It seems to me that the article's point is that PDF as a format has attributes that satisfy the author's goal, whereas HTML does not. The parent comment says that HTML does have those attributes after all (if you choose to use HTML that way). That is very directly addressing the article's point, as I understand it.
Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf]
by JohnFen on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:19PM
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Perhaps I misunderstood, but I believe the author's point was to highlight what a steaming mess the modern web is. The PDF aspect strikes me as illustrating a point, not a seriously proposed solution.
If these all "miss the point", what is the point?
It seems to me that the article's point is that PDF as a format has attributes that satisfy the author's goal, whereas HTML does not. The parent comment says that HTML does have those attributes after all (if you choose to use HTML that way). That is very directly addressing the article's point, as I understand it.