>Like I said, blame the messenger - blame the people who created the PDF >for not making it accssible and easy for the users. Don't blame the PDF >itself - it's innocent and in fact in my opinion, a beneficial >technology Adobe has invented.
My earlier complaint was not about whether not pdf should be used (there are places where it is quite useful - such as long e-books, catalogues, manuals, etc that are downloaded for offline viewing - or invoices, etc designed to be downloaded). I was just trying to draw attention to the issue of some sites forcing people to open pdfs in a browser window rather than giving the user the choice to download them (thereby causing frustration for users who are then stuck with a locked up browser while waiting for the browser plugin to start) and also that pdf should not be seen as a substitute for html content on a website. On some of the sites that do this, the pdf's are mostly short public press releases. I see no reason why there could not be alternate html versions of those (perhaps even created by using a conversion tool? - the rendering and html may not be perfect but surely this could help). I wonder what Google uses to do those the "view as html" when you see pdfs in search results. ... maybe there are some server-side conversion tools around that could be useful? ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
