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PDF is a proprietary format. Is it really considered better than JS?
by SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
PDF 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