Posted by mbstevens on 04/27/07 23:01

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:57:17 +1000, dorayme wrote:

> In article <pan.2007.04.27.22.28.33.450654@xmbstevensx.com>,
> mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:14:45 -0700, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>
>> > What's really bad is when you are invited to open a PDF that of course
>> > has information the web site doesn't, and you are presented with the
>> > same problem, only there's no way to disable styles.
>>
>> I don't like them (grrrrrrrrrrrrr) even when they can be read.
>> PDFs on the web are irritating because you have no random access to
>> their information until you download the whole damn thing. When possible
>> they should be converted to (X)HTML, with an optional PDF download for
>> those who want it.
>
> It is a way for clients to get stuff on the web cheaply, or so
> they suppose, bypassing the website author/maintainer! It is hard
> to know if it is really cheaper for them but presumably many find
> it easier to make pdfs than html files.

Yeah, a lot of it seems to come from government agencies and other fans of
the minimum-bid mentality. You can always *claim* that you have made the
information available that you had to by law.

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