RE: PDF vs. HTML

["Swallow, William" <WSwallow -at- courion -dot- com>]

::  Even if the link is in an e-mail 
::  and directly to a
::  pdf file, first the browser and then the reader and then 
::  the page have to load.

This depends on the email platform and how you have set it up to handle
attachments. With most email clients this is not the case. A browser is not
required to view a PDF, Reader is. There is no reason why an email client
(unless web-based) should even attempt to open a browser.

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