[thelist] Do we still need to say Download Acrobat Reader?

[Saila, Craig]

> So what I'm wondering is: when do these things become a
> given? Are we at a point where the filetype is enough?

Depends on your audience... I would suggest for general audiences, a
message or some icon is needed still (the filetype may be too obscure).

What I'm tending to do, though, is to just link to the file and include
the "Acrobat Reader needed" message in a title attribute on the link.
For example,
 <a href="some.pdf" title="The Acrobat Reader need to read this 210KB
document">document</a>

The only stats I could find after a quick search had the Acrobat
Reader's install base at about 62%, but that was based on a December
2000 survey
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/02/02/epstein.html>

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Cheers,

Craig Saila
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