[thechat] Adobe to buy Macromedia
Paul Cowan
evolt at funkwit.com
Mon Apr 18 21:17:09 CDT 2005
On 18/04/2005 1:52 PM +0100 William Anderson wrote:
> The technology is great, it just needs great content builders and
> developers behind it.
I'd agree to a certain extent, with the caveat that it's next-to-impossible
for PDF to provide a good web experience. Not because it's poorly used (it
is), or because it can be bloated or poorly executed (it can; as you point
out, so can HTML) but because the vast majority of people viewing PDF on a
web environment are doing it using Acrobat Reader (and its various heirs
and successors) -- and without a doubt, the various incarnations of Adobe
PDF-reading software are among the clunkiest, most poorly-designed, bloated
slow ugly unusable heap of crap pieces of software on the planet. I rank
Acrobat etc. #3 on the all-time murderous-rage-inducing Windows programs
ever, right behind QuickTime player (#2) and, of course,
RealPlayer/RealJukebox/RealWhateverIt'sCalledThisWeek (way way WAAAY out in
front at #1)
Paul
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