Re: The Times Thinks Outside the Browser
[ snip of praise for new NYT online edition ]
I suppose one of those constraints is that the WWW has a set of vendor-neutral standards, so it works on all platforms instead of just the ones sold by Microsoft. Some people, including author Jack Shafer, fail to understand why that is an enormous advantage.
It is also true that most of the readability advantages he claims, are available in HTML too. Shafer's bad-mouthing of PDF also smacks of ignorance, but then, PDF also works on most platforms.
I am surprised that any company with a lick of sense would go into partnership with Microsoft. Most who have done that haven't survived, and those that did (IBM, Kodak, ...) have been badly wounded by the experience.
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by W Howard in General Telecommunications Forum
