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Whatever PDF is, it's surely not the way to unfuck the web given it can embed text-as-pictures, frequently breaks "semantic" (reading) text order, and can conta
by tannhaeuser 4y ago
Whatever PDF is, it's surely not the way to unfuck the web given it can embed text-as-pictures, frequently breaks "semantic" (reading) text order, and can contain JavaScript just as a website can.
I'm sometimes printing to PDF to even be able to read an article full of autoplay videos, other ads, and trackers. The reason why the web is dying, and will continue to die, is simply JavaScript, a generational/resume-driven desire to venture into the most absurd techniques to make the simplest form work, seizure of the web by Google et al, coupled with a lack of incentives for quality content. And the astonishing foolishness of nerds wanting to turn the web into a reactive-functional mvc showcase or whatever.