On 16 September 2010 11:17, Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote: [.] > For filing of certain types of accounts online, and you have to do it > online, www.hmrc.gov.uk recently provided a PDF that was a series of > forms, with it doing calculations for you, and then it securely uploaded > the results to HMRC using your login details when complete. A real pain > compared to the web interface it replaced since I had to install Adobe > Reader, AdbeRdr9.3.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin; are any of the free PDF > readers at the level where they can substitute for this type of use?
I doubt it. This is the central problem with supporting someone else's evolving standard. FSF has made all the same problems/mistakes supporting Adobe Flash format with their Gnash. Shame they didn't give HTML5, video, audio tags and Ogg Theora such importance. This is why Flash and also Silverlight has done so well. FSF needs to take the lead with vendor neutral standards rather than trying to reverse engineer other companies formats. Gnash still stop priority: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/ Obviously Reversible GDB debugging is top priority, not. Sorry for being cynical, at least FSFE is more relevant. I'm certain 10 years from now FSF focus will still be on things like BIOS and Adobe's latest proprietary format, missing the web completely, the biggest area of software they have no priorities within, oops! Is there anyone more in tune with modern software who could take over leadership of FSF? ..Just to add, I am not entirely serious with this question, but I do see the direction isn't very successful since I have followed FSF (10yrs or so) Cheers, Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
