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It'd be a little hard to show a PPT without some js viewer.
by dingo_bat 8y ago
It'd be a little hard to show a PPT without some js viewer.
- dmitrygr 8y agoIf only we could invent a way to show static documents reliably. We could call it, say, a Portable Document Format. And we could have a reader for it that anyone could install and see said document. Hm, what a world that would be.
- engi_nerd 8y agoIf only PDFs were purely static
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoPDF is a proprietary format. Is it really considered better than JS?
- blub 8y agoPDF is an ISO standard, it's not proprietary. And yes, it's better than whatever JS is cobbled together for presentations, of course, it was designed for documents, not blinking things on the screen :)
- vram22 8y agoYes. It became an ISO standard (ISO 32000) in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#History_and_standardization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF#History_and_standardizatio...
- computerfriend 8y agoThat hasn't been the case for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
- quadrangle 8y agoor maybe some sort of "markup" that merely needs to be rendered without running any accessory program code?
- realusername 8y agoHow so? the arrows could just point to the next page, there's zero interactivity on that PPT.