This links directly to a PDF. Reader beware.

numlock86 · on Oct 21, 2019

What do you mean? This is pretty common here. Nevertheless it should be included in the title if that is what you are getting at.

romaniitedomum · on Oct 21, 2019

Yes, putting PDF into the title is considered polite.

pushrax · on Oct 21, 2019

On the other hand, if you don't want to open pdfs by accident, use "Always Ask" .. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewe...

Gaelan · on Oct 21, 2019

What's wrong with links to PDFs? A concern with malware?

dhritzkiv · on Oct 21, 2019

I'm not sure about these days, but I do remember being hesitant about opening PDFs 12+ years ago, before I switched to MacOS (Safari has always had very good PDF display ability via OS X), and before all the major browsers had built-in PDF display (PDFs would often be downloaded as a file, which would trigger the opening of some PDF viewer shareware pre-installed on Windows). Terrible UX back then.

notzuck · on Oct 21, 2019

Yeah that was true back then. Opening a PDF link on windows 2000 or XP always a pain in the ass. I think those days are mostly over now though.

shantly · on Oct 21, 2019

It used to be considered polite to append "(pdf warning)" to direct links to PDFs. I still like it, even though it's way less of a PITA now than it used to be.

cesarb · on Oct 22, 2019

PDFs are often big, which is a concern for those on metered connections.