Not mincing words: “PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later”
Great for printing. Terrible for online reading.
And that’s just on desktops! Let’s not forget that most people are using the internet *from their phones*.
Ever tried to read a PDF article on your phone? I bet you have. And I bet you wished they’d taken 10 seconds to export the thing as an HTML page so you didn’t have to zoom-and-pan the whole thing.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/