hgbook on bitbucket; was: hgbook is broken?

Doug Philips dgou at mac.com
Wed Feb 11 16:57:08 CST 2009


On or about Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at 05:32PM, Greg Ward indited:
>On 11 February 2009, Doug Philips said:
>Errm?  Excuse me?  Are we using the same World-Wide Web?

Probably. I'm using FireFox 2 on (shudder) Windows XP and FireFox 3 on Mac OS X 10.5
Of course if Linux is behind the curve here...

>PDF is nice, but it's *just* *not* *the* *same*.  If you want your
>document to be a first-class citizen of the WWW, use HTML.  (Well, OK,
>maaaaybe this newfangled XML thing with either CSS stylesheets or XSLT
>transformation to XHTML will come to something... too early to tell...

Precisely the point of using PDF, it isn't dependent on yet another semi-adopted semi-borked up semi-web-standard.
Getting HTML right across different browsers isn't trivial. Just look at all the hg style machinations. PDF is at least immune from all that crap. And it looks exactly the same because it doesn't depend on silly browser rendering differences.

>P.S. oh wait, was that a troll?  man, I've been out of the loop for
>too long.  sorry if I fell for it.

No, it was an attempt to cut a gordian knot. I was serious. Why take on the HTML headache if you already have a cross platform portable document format (yes, it isn't perfect, but it is 10 damn-sights better than HTML).

--Doug



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