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Posted by Neredbojias on 09/27/16 11:42
With neither quill nor qualm, if quothed:
> "Martin Underwood" <news@isp.com> wrote in
> news:44174d66$0$3609$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net:
>
> > I think the bigger issue with HTML and browser design is that it only
> > supplies *hints* and *suggestions* as to the formatting, rather than
> > making all browsers display a page with identical formatting, as PDF
> > does. It would be so much easier as the designer of a site if you
> > could be confident that everyone would see the same view of the page
> > without the line breaks and table column widths being variable under
> > user control.
>
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> The problem with this suggestion is that Acrobat is probably one of the
> worst methods for displaying documents on-screen ever devised. Its complete
> inflexibility has me cursing almost every time I have open a PDF document.
Many people disagree with this but I, for one, concur wholeheartedly.
I'd much rather peruse a document via html (-decent html that is.)
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Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.
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