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You're the same guy who kept whining about ``documents'' and similar stuff in that one thread months ago, aren't you?
One of those guys was me, but I recall anti-PDF posts from some other(s) who weren't me. I'm the one obsessed with my freedom to treat any data however I want.
> I can't believe you dismiss the entire art of typography and layout
To me, the best layout is plain text. It uses whichever font and colour I like, expands to fit whatever window or screen I'm using, can be resized to be as wide as I want, and can't possibly contain annoying elements. On top of that, it's the most usable, accessible, editable, portable and widely-supported format, and it's inherently DRM-less. Do you need any more advantages than that?
Regarding your ``light bulb'' complaint, inverting the colors of your monitor is easy, and I think some PDF readers even come with a feature to do just that.
Of course; if I absolutely have to, I do that. I do that to websites too; I have a handy invert lightness JavaScript bookmark. Inverting lightness has the advantages of keeping colours as they are (in case the text mentions "the words in blue..."), just with fixed lightning.
> I am pretty indifferent regarding pages, but there's an obvious reason why they're there.
Yes, luk it's like pages wowza!!! It's now easier than those black
UNIX DOS screens, because it's, like, paper! That's like totally 200% easier to me!
And finally, you might want to know that we humans read shorter lines faster. This is why it is better to have vertically laid-out text even if it isn't the most optimal way to use screen space (oh the horror!).
And this is why I prefer 4:3 to 16:10/16:9 aspects, but I'm stuck with a 16:10 one because I wanted a bigger, new screen. At first stuff like world4ch looked really wide, but I've discovered you get easily used to that. I now think it's a matter of culture: once you're used to long lines, you no longer give a damn. I know I don't.
In any case, with plain text you can implement a browser that will display it as columns, and you can enforce that in a decent HTML User-Agent. That's what I like about HTML: except MSIE (which we all know it's for faggots), HTML is designed to be on
your side, not on whatever faggot's, because, well, it's your computer after all, you ought to retain some rights over it even if you live in the USA.