Dear fellow scientists, here's sth that puzzles me at present: In virtually all research repositories that I know, PDF documents dominate, even though they are a 1990s format targeted at bringing classical paper documents to screen, without being resonsive not linked. Back in the 90ies, though, Tim Berners-Lee proposed another format with hypertext capabilities for scientific exchange. Why do paper-page-style PDF still dominate so much? Do you have ideas? Or do you know about other formats that may exist out there in communities beyond mine (chemistry/physics/materials science)?
Here are some discussions of the reasons for the popularity of the PDF format:
https://www.pdfa.org/pdfs-popularity-online/
https://www.quora.com/What-made-the-PDF-format-so-popular
https://pdftables.com/blog/pdf-popularity
https://www.pdfreaderpro.com/blog/why-is-pdf-the-most-popular-file-format
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/11/12/why-pdf-technology-is-more-relevant-than-ever/
Dear Dr Sebastian Seiffert . See the following useful link: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2363
Kindly see also the following RG link: Article Formats of Scientific e-Documents in the Modern Information-...
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