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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Jan 7, 2003 3:17PM


On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 04:39 AM, Holly Marie wrote:
> I disagree about PDF being a better pratice, though I do believe
> offering
> the HTML alternative is preferred in all choices.
> PDF also take longer to download. The larger or more complex this file
> is,
> the longer it will take to download. On the other hand multipaged HTML
> downloads just that page at a time, not the whole chunk. Therefor if a
> user
> is online looking for a single topic in a User Manual or other such
> document, if it is in that PDF document, they may have to download the
> Whole
> 200+ pages or more[sometimes less], in order to retrieve that
> information.
> This is not acceptable in ease of access. [I may go out on a limb, but
> I
> highly doubt these online PDF manuals have been converted over in
> accessible
> ways.]
>
I'm confused.

I was arguing that PDF is better than Word.

You are referring to the advantage of HTML over PDF. That has never
been in
dispute.

> Most of the PDFs I see do not seem more accessible and are more
> difficult to
> manipulate than a web page.

I think you have seriously misunderstood my post. My recommendation is
that
instead of providing Word, or providing Word and HTML, one should
instead provide
PDF and HTML.

--Kynn

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Kynn Bartlett < <EMAIL REMOVED> > http://kynn.com
Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com
Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com


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