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> Browsers still can't justify text properly. Even with hyphenation (which iirc is still a problem in Chrome), the greedy algorithm used for splitting text acro

> Browsers still can't justify text properly. Even with hyphenation (which iirc is still a problem in Chrome), the greedy algorithm used for splitting text across lines still results in too much space between words when justified. > There seems to be a complete lack of interest in Paged Media support, so if you want your web-page to be printable with nice formatting, you basically need to provide it as a PDF. These are the two main reasons I think of whenever someone complains that scientific publication should be Web-based instead of PDFs. Browsers are still generally lacking when it comes to proper typesetting.

Joeri 7y ago
On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. This makes science less accessible than it should be and in my view is part of the reason media so often misrepresent scientific findings.
- rauhl 7y ago
  > On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. On the gripping hand, in a century those reconstituted dead trees will still be legible by anyone who can lay hands on them; the likelihood that an interactive presentation from 2019 will be legible to anyone other than a computer archæologist in 2119 is effectively nil. Heck, there’s a decent chance that it won’t work in a year or two!
- ska 7y ago
  Interactive charts are great for supplemental material, but moving primary sources (e.g. journal papers) to anything as ephemeral as the current web stack is a terrible idea.

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> Browsers still can't justify text properly. Even with hyphenation (which iirc is still a problem in Chrome), the greedy algorithm used for splitting text acro

by sidpatil 7y ago

Joeri 7y ago
On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. This makes science less accessible than it should be and in my view is part of the reason media so often misrepresent scientific findings.
- rauhl 7y ago
  > On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. On the gripping hand, in a century those reconstituted dead trees will still be legible by anyone who can lay hands on them; the likelihood that an interactive presentation from 2019 will be legible to anyone other than a computer archæologist in 2119 is effectively nil. Heck, there’s a decent chance that it won’t work in a year or two!
- ska 7y ago
  Interactive charts are great for supplemental material, but moving primary sources (e.g. journal papers) to anything as ephemeral as the current web stack is a terrible idea.