[LINK] Government gives thumbs down to PDF format

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
> On 06/12/2010, at 10:38 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>>> On 06/12/2010, at 9:24 AM, Pilcher, Fred wrote:
>>>> Kerry wrote:
>>>>> Tom wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> There are inherent deficiencies and constraints in all publishing systems. They often fail to realise the end-user's desires, let alone translate the author's intentions. 
>> <snip>
>>
>> This is the crux of the problem. The Government Authors
>> are still writing for the printed page instead of for electronic
>> communication.
> 
> There are difficulties in knowing end-user expectations in the electronic world. At least with print, expectations are generally uniform.
<snip>

I don't know how you can make this statement when we are
upto version 5 of HTML, which preserves backward compatibility
to version 3, which was around in 1997.

Marghanita
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