pdf's of Acts

[David Biggins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Fairbrother [mailto:zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk]
> Sent: 30 November 2002 12:10
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: pdf's of Acts

> Why don't pdf's work in IE? I'll take a couple of guesses.
> 
> First, Microsoft don't particularly like Adobe. Microsoft have a NIH
> attitude to them, and Microsoft like to set their own "standards".
> 
> Second, the existence and widespread use of Adobe's Acrobat 
> reader goes
> against Microsoft's policy of integrating the browser into everything.
> 
> So I suppose Microsoft don't bother to get the plugin right, 
> and Adobe don't
> bother because they'd prefer people to use the Acrobat reader.
> 

You'd make a good case, if it weren't for the fact that MS don't do an
acrobat plugin at all,  and that as far as I can see, the Adobe plugin is
simply the standard Acrobat reader invoked by OLE/ActiveX.

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