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by aaam 5326 days ago
To be honest, I never really liked the whole concept of an third-party "web plugin" for the browser? Either support the file-formats inside the browser or just download the file and let some (native) app of my choice deal with it? Would that be so bad?

I even question the wisdom of inline graphics? The screen is not really like paper. If there is a need for a "figure 1", then it would be almost always be more useful to have it display in a separate window next to the browser, so that you don't have to scroll up every time the text refers to something on this figure?
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suivix 5326 days ago
Navigating between two windows is much more annoying than scrolling up.
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aaam 5325 days ago
It might be in some implementations, but not always: Given a large enough display you could set them side by side and what could be easier then looking left/right?

Requiring scrolling is usually bad enough and only becomes worse the greater the distance.

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