[rfc-i] transition plan for choosing alternative format for RFCs

[Leonard Rosenthol]

>PDF offers very poor readability on, for example, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus I'm using to type this email.
>
No, PDF has nothing to do with that.

The choice of VIEWER that you are using is given you a bad experience with that document.

Don't blame the format for the failings of the viewer…

Leonard

From: Tim Bray <tbray at textuality.com<mailto:tbray at textuality.com>>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:31:08 -0700
To: Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth at adobe.com<mailto:lrosenth at adobe.com>>
Cc: "rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org<mailto:rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org>" <rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org<mailto:rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org>>, Larry Masinter <masinter at adobe.com<mailto:masinter at adobe.com>>
Subject: RE: [rfc-i] transition plan for choosing alternative format for RFCs


PDF offers very poor readability on, for example, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus I'm using to type this email. I keep having to pinch and unpinch and scroll around the page.  HTML, on the other hand, flows smoothly into the available screen width and auto-expands to do so at a very legible type size with a double-tap.

The usability contrast is not subtle. Also, the proportion of people who use this sort of mobile device for some or all of their interaction with data is growing fast.

-T

On Mar 25, 2012 8:58 AM, "Leonard Rosenthol" <lrosenth at adobe.com<mailto:lrosenth at adobe.com>> wrote:
> but speaking as a heavy user of various mobile devices, I'd like to register an early dissent against PDF in general.
>
Could you expand on why mobile devices have anything to do with the choice of a file format?

Thanks,
Leonard

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