Thanks everyone for responding. Brian, yes I was thinking along those lines. It just seems to me that as modern browsers zoom in on the whole page by pinching, etc, it means it's more acceptable to use pixels for text fonts, rather than ems or relative sizing. So if documents online can be designed at the pixel level, fully zoomable, with new descriptive tags, then it's feasible to fully render things like tax forms. I was just thinking that with the HTML5 tags, that might substitute for postscript pdfs.
For something like a tax form, I can see laying out a bunch of divs, absolutely positioned, all with height="243px" width="263px" etc, exact dimensions, and filled with 12px Times, instead of what I might do otherwise, relative sizing, like fontSize=0.8em, which would be better for Section 508 compliance. The Flash on Androids just can't happen soon enough though in my mind. :-) - MM Michael, are you thinking HTML5 may replace PDFs online, or also as a formate for sending documents via email, ftp, etc to be viewed and printed? Can see that online for information display. For things like tax forms, business forms, and print design pieces I'm not sure how that would work. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
