Re:Stop sending .DOC files as mail attachments There is a be...
by acdha on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @09:12AM
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HTML isn't a container at all but what you're describing is basically ePub3 - HTML and resources inside a container, designed for reflow and other advanced scenarios which clash with PDF's basic philosophy.
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Re:Stop sending .DOC files as mail attachments There is a be...
by oddthink on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @09:43AM
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That's true; ePub is certainly trying to do the right thing here. I haven't used it much myself, so I don't know how well it works. For my own uses, I'd like to get decent equations and LaTeX-like special characters (e.g. \nabla), but I can live with embedded PNG or GIF.
(Not that that really alters the basic point, which was that HTML, by itself, isn't enough. The object tag might be a good enough solution, I don't know.)