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I think Google is actively against offline data. It's not aligned with their business interests My mental analogy is, you can also have offline apps on Android

by geokon 3y ago

I think Google is actively against offline data. It's not aligned with their business interests My mental analogy is, you can also have offline apps on Android. You can specify this in app manifest. But internet access isn't exposed to the user as a permissions. Like the author says, Google already injects online fonts into the EPubs they generate. Meanwhile PDF is a battle they've already lost

BlueTemplar 3y ago
Indeed, and I would add that there's no reason for browser to be able to open PDFs : this sounds as yet another attempt for Google to wrestle with Microsoft over the control of the OS (by having everything happen in the browser instead). And also probably why we still have to rely on 3rd party hacky browser extensions to be able to save web pages as a single file.
Shorel 3y ago
> Like the author says, Google already injects online fonts into the EPubs they generate. I didn't notice that before, but now I will actively avoid Google generated EPUB files.