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HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

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262 points el3ctron | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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vatsachak ◴[06 Dec 25 17:10 UTC] No.46174859[source]▶
Why do we like HTML more than pdfs?

HTML rendering requires you to be connected to the internet, or setting up the images and mathJax locally. A PDF just works.

HTML obviously supports dynamic embedding, such as programs, much better but people just usually post a github.io page with the paper.

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devnull3 ◴[06 Dec 25 17:15 UTC] No.46174901[source]▶
> HTML rendering requires you to be connected to the internet

Not really. One can always generate a self-contained html. Both CSS and JS (if needed) can be inline.

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1. vatsachak ◴[06 Dec 25 18:33 UTC] No.46175492[source]▶
True but the webdev idiom is injecting things such as mathjax from a cdn. I guess one can pre-render the page and save that, but that's kind of like a PDF already