Posted By
Csabo
on 2004-10-17
17:21:50
|  Re: Old Programming Books
If a book would be stored as lots of HTML pages, they can still be easily outputted as one long page. HTML + HTML = big HTML. The same cannot be said of PDF.
The worst thing against PDF is the access problem. If we have a couple of them on the server, they are practically useless for searching. Let's say you are looking for one thing, one term. With HTML data, you can query/search the database across hundreds of books and thousands of pages, and easily find what you're looking for. |
