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Wasn't the World Wide Web invented at CERN specifically for sharing scientific papers? Why are we still using PDFs at all?
by _dain_ 11mo ago
Wasn't the World Wide Web invented at CERN specifically for sharing scientific papers? Why are we still using PDFs at all?
- fsh 11mo agoNo, it wasn't. Scientists at CERN used DVI and later PDF like everyone else. HTML has no provisions for typesetting equations and is therefore not suitable for physics papers (without much newer hacks such as MathML).
- teddy-smith 10mo agoWhy not typeset in something else and import the image into html/css?
- cxr 10mo agoMathML isn't new. It predates Windows 98 and the birth of a substantial part of HN's userbase.