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HTML + CSS. It's not a secret that competent news sites provide good readability and stable presentation on everything from a smartphone to a high dpi desktop and laptop displays. e.g medium.com and https://www.theguardian.com

I don't know about you but sometimes a smartphone is the only display I have available - and reading pdf's on a phone is undeniably terrible.



I read alot of news on my computer, but for longer reads, the presentation of PDFs (e.g., a scanned book) makes a noticeale difference.

Should HTML+CSS really be able to do everything PDF does? And is it commonly implemented that well, at least by well-resourced sites?

> reading pdf's on a phone is undeniably terrible

I actually find it to be fine, but I am thinking of book pages, so maybe 8 x 6 inches. What I miss are efficient tools such as markup, bookmarking, etc.




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