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Something can be unacceptable without necessarily being the worst possible case.

• paulddraper 11y ago
  True, let me rephrase. Publishing something in the Portable Document Format (particularly on a non-web subject) is not unacceptable. HTML is nice, but it does have its drawbacks. For example, HTML doesn't have pagination or standard TOC support. It's hypermedia, so you have to link out to a bunch of other files, making it much more cumbersome to transmit and distribute. Using a zip, I suppose? (Yes, you can use data URIs in HTML5 compliant viewers, for inflated sizes, and mandatory full file reads before rendering.) I probably wouldn't have done a PDF either, but I think you're reading more into it then you can.
  • oneeyedpigeon 11y ago
    OK, we shouldn't get too hung up on this; "unacceptable" is obviously hyperbolic! I won't bother with a point-by-point rebuttal, just summarise by saying that this is clearly a blog post, and PDF is completely wrong for a blog post. For the author to get something relating to usability so fundamentally wrong in a post about usability just entirely undermines their argument.
    • paulddraper 11y ago
      You know what, on second thought, you're right. Given the context and content, it's pretty ironic.