Re:Entire website in a single HTML file
by nine_k on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:39PM
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Emphatically no.
HTML can be responsive, like an electronic document should.
PDF was designed to faithfully represent paper, and it has all the fluidity and customizability of a stack of printed paper. It's also completely anti-semantic: it has no document structure beside pages, and each page just describes how to put ink onto paper.
I think that the principal application area of PDF is just that: to represent paper, for printing purposes. For everything else, it's not exactly great.
HTML can be responsive, like an electronic document should.
PDF was designed to faithfully represent paper, and it has all the fluidity and customizability of a stack of printed paper. It's also completely anti-semantic: it has no document structure beside pages, and each page just describes how to put ink onto paper.
I think that the principal application area of PDF is just that: to represent paper, for printing purposes. For everything else, it's not exactly great.