From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: call function in other window ?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 10:14:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw.86shjwgfc1.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170523075712.GA4847@tuxteam.de
> I wouldn't be so sure (Adobe would sell my
> grandma if that were profitable to them).
> Besides, it seems to be known outside of
> Adobe how to "do" Javascript in PDF anyway.
>
> But my main point was the irony: Adobe gains
> market dominance (a long story having to do
> with PostScript, laser printers and things),
> imposes a document standard (PDF) touted as
> open, ISO and things, especially touted as
> "safe" for documents (because, as opposed to
> PostScript it's *not* a programming
> language), then turns around and makes
> *proprietary* extensions (referenced from the
> standard as _normative_. Yikes) to that with
> an embedded executable language. Bad,
> Adobe, bad.
Man, how on earth did this happen? It is so
bizarre. Isn't the PDF something that came out
of Xerox PARC and the PostScript stuff in the
70s-80s? While JavaScript is part of the
90s Netscape era with the whole Internet or
"world wide web" mania?
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-23 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-20 15:35 call function in other window ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-20 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-20 22:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-20 23:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-21 1:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-21 1:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-21 2:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-21 10:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-21 10:16 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-21 10:50 ` Joost Kremers
2017-05-21 11:08 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-21 13:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-21 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-21 15:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-21 15:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-22 6:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-22 21:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-22 22:26 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-22 22:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-23 0:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 0:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 7:10 ` tomas
2017-05-23 7:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 7:57 ` tomas
2017-05-23 8:14 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-05-23 8:54 ` tomas
2017-05-23 12:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 13:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-23 13:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-23 19:18 ` tomas
2017-05-23 20:25 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-05-23 21:02 ` John Ankarström
2017-05-24 19:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-05-24 7:26 ` tomas
2017-05-21 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-21 22:58 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <<83tw4enqtl.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-05-21 23:00 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-21 13:48 ` Emanuel Berg
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