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by MilStdJunkie 1283 days ago
Someone said it already: it's not a technical problem. This is a business problem, which means it's a social/psych thing. >= VP-level generally[1] don't recognize the signed doc as a signed doc. Unless they see that little A arrowhead in the top bar.

W3C and Google aren't helping things here; by drip-feeding PMM into CSS, they've made it impossible to get a consistent HTML5-based print standard. Which could then be wrapped in "normal" auth0. However, I don't know the details of the whole shebang, all I know is that PMM3 was in the works in 2006 and it never quite came out of its hole. Instead you have to shovel out money to Prince or figure out how Paged.js works. But whether or not that's W3C or Google's fault, I really don't know. Maybe HN could edukamate me.

[1] Particularly the older ones that think they're hip. Others just let their tech-savvy assistants sign everything.

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What does "PMM" stand for? Your comment seems to be one of the top results for it on Google[1], and I don't even have a guess for what it means.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22PMM3%22+w3c

Damn, my bad, I thought that acroterm was standard. PMM3 == Paged Media Module Level 3

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/

It's been dripping into @media and other bits and pieces, but there's no universal browser implementation yet, unless you just draw a line and say Paged.js IS the browser implementation.