Warren Turkal wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:12 PM, David A. Wheeler <> wrote:
>> E.G., in the "one laptop per child" system, it'd make sense to have a lot of
>> textbooks in OpenDocument format that are normally opened in a "browser"
>> (read-only) mode, while other documents that you're working on would be
>> opened using an editor. (The browser might be optimized just for reading).
>
> To play devil's advocate, wouldn't PDF be a better format for the use
> case of viewing (and not editing) a document?
What about HTML then? There are, after all, HTML editors, but the web
has been a predominantly read-only medium.
Bruce