- From: Joel Ward <ward_joel@bah.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:02:11 -0500
- To: "WAI List" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
These are two very, very good points. Thank you, David! This is why I love these lists. > > Does anyone actually like reading PDFs in a browser? > > I prefer reading the HTML specification, offline, in *a* browser called > Acrobat Reader. It has better navigation tools (e.g. the document > outline tree) than typical HTML browsers, and allows one to work with a > single file. In that case, the consistent rendition of the pages is not > an issue. > > > > For viewing online, you can make a PDF document work much like a standard > > HTML page. But why bother? Just make a standard HTML page! > > The reason one might bother is that PDF is designed to reproduce the > page as seen by the designer, whereas designers are currently producing > contorted HTML to achieve this effect in a language that was not > intended for tbe purpose. It does not necessarily help accessibility, > except, possibly, that the time wasted on making HTML pixel perfect > and inaccessible could be used to make the PDF accessible (unlikely > of course). > >
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