Your comments look a lot more like someone on a personal vendetta against PDF, for whatever reason, than an argument grounded in reality. There are people whose

Your comments look a lot more like someone on a personal vendetta against PDF, for whatever reason, than an argument grounded in reality. There are people whose usecases are entirely different from yours, who do not want PDF to die because it is immensely useful. I work in printing and graphic design, and PDF is irreplacable. It's literally the only dependable vector graphics interchange format that exists. Would you have us going back to passing around zip files of PageMaker documents? SVG is a laughable train wreck for any use where it's imperative that files look the same across devices, media and apps. I've yet to encounter a non-trivial SVG file that renders exactly the same across, say, Chrome/FF/IE or Illustrator/CorelDRAW/Inkscape. I don't know whether the format is trash or all implementations are, but the end user experience is awful either way. Now, none of this means it's a good idea to throw random PDF files at the web when HTML would have worked as well or better. If your argument would have stopped at that I would have agreed with you.