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The problem reminds me of pdf, the format is well known, there are tons of third-party readers, but they all glitch somewhat differently. Also PDF is turing co
by est 3mo ago
The problem reminds me of pdf, the format is well known, there are tons of third-party readers, but they all glitch somewhat differently.
Also PDF is turing complete.
Modern rich content formats are hard. Open formats solves only small part of the problem.
I think the universal interchangable format is static HTML.
- AnthonyMouse 3mo agoPDF is a mess because it's an ancient originally-proprietary format based on a proprietary language and the Adobe "standard" didn't actually specify a lot of important things for a long time, leaving other implementations to try to reverse engineer them. Meanwhile you look at actual standard formats like PNG or UTF-8 or, as you say, HTML, and the implementations generally do a lot better because there is a proper spec.