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The internet already has this. It's called HTML.
by wombatmobile 6y ago
The internet already has this. It's called HTML.
- tkzed49 6y agoLiquid mode? It looks like a tool to reflow the content in existing PDFs, which are often intentionally not responsive. I don't see how this is similar to HTML.
- wombatmobile 6y agoThe AI is required to reconstruct text order in legacy PDF files. Once you have the text, why wouldn't you render it in HTML?
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- Gys 6y agoA standard that is too open ;-) Better have an alternative that is controlled by one company. Shareholders like that. Think social media, ads, apps.
- tkzed49 6y agoPDF is an ISO standard. PDF 2.0 has no proprietary components.
- munk-a 6y agoPDFs can do all sorts of voodoo (like you can do with HTML if you hate the user's browser) to make legible content that is pretty illegible to machines - but most documents are produced by tools that have pretty sane outputs that can be reverse parsed to get a pretty nice HTML blob.
- random3 6y agoSadly, without something like CSS Regions (https://caniuse.com/css-regions https://caniuse.com/css-regions) the internet has limited rendering capabilities. CSS Regions was led by Adobe but dumped by Google with Blink (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/google-plans-to-dump-adobe-css-tech-to-make-blink-fast-not-rich/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/googl...)