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I was under the impression that PDF was created as a response to postscript being "too programmable" and not "document enough" but then they decided that PDF is
by AnaniasAnanas 8y ago
I was under the impression that PDF was created as a response to postscript being "too programmable" and not "document enough" but then they decided that PDF is too minimal and so they ended up bloating it beyond what PostScript ever was by including JavaScript, Flash, and other trash in it.
- kibibu 8y agoIt's got a 3d model viewer in it
- ryacko 8y agoSo does TempleOS.
- kibibu 8y agoAre you suggesting we replace PDF with TempleOS?
- grawlinson 8y agoIt would be an improvement!
- fabricexpert 8y agoI'm waiting for someone to post a wasm templeOS build which has some been modified to open pdfs immediately
- danmg 8y agoNot divine.
- ryacko 8y agoNo, just run Adobe in a virtual machine with constrained access to other files. Although TempleOS clearly is a divine revelation.
- ct520 8y agoI’ll get IT on it STAT! Regular employees going to love accessing PDFs in a VM
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoHonestly, it's possible to make VM windows show up as if they were normal programs, or you could just do things like Chrome-level internal sandboxing. There's no reason this has to be clunky.
- kibibu 8y agoAdobe Reader is already sandboxed a la Chrome.
- ryacko 8y agoAccording to Zerodium prices, VM escape costs as much as LPE, so it is unclear if there will be much of a security improvement beyond 2x. Although virtual machine hypervisors don’t automatically update, unlike Adobe or Windows.
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoI am pretty sure that hypervisors update just like any other software, via the package manager.