RKG Logo 434-978-4300
Alan Rimm-Kaufman

Rant: PDFs causing browsers to hang or crawl

Title: Rant: PDFs causing browsers to hang or crawl
URL: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2006/08/06/rant-pdfs-causing-browsers-to-hang-or-crawl/
Printed: January 5, 2009
Source: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com

Rant: Why does viewing a PDF through IE or FireFox cause the browser and often the desktop to come to a grinding halt for several seconds, even on a decent computer? Not sure if the problem rests w/ Adobe or with browsers, but sheesh, it’s 2006. Streaming video works perfectly in multiple formats nearly every time… why are PDFs still such a bear?

If you like this post, consider subscribing to our RSS feed. You can also have new posts sent to you via email.


Possibly Similar Posts

Trackback

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2006/08/06/rant-pdfs-causing-browsers-to-hang-or-crawl/trackback/

No Comments Yet

Your comment will be first!

Your Comment

Tags

RKG Tags: , , , , ,

Technorati Tags: , , , , ,

Email Updates

Categories

Recent Comments

  • George Michie: Happy New Year, John. Market Motive is a good place to start. Keep a close eye on other good blogs: ours, SearchEngineLand, ClickZ....
  • john: Hi George and Happy New Year. I work for large Company who created a new SBU of New Media Specialists, basically resellers of Google And...
  • George Michie: Shelley, I hear you! We had a candidate who listed HTML as a proficiency on her resume. When pressed for specifics she said:...
  • Erin: Actually, I am always wondering this about myself. I surprise myself by what I know, but I don’t feel super confident about my...
  • Shelley Ellis: I like the sports analogy. My husband was a baseball coach for years and I still get tickled thinking about the time a mom told him...
  • AJ @ Web Domains, UK: I think the problem is spamming scripts are being written that target prominent blogging/comments systems such as Movable...
  • Debra Askanase: Hi Alan, Thanks for the quick overview. Just want to point out that the Wufoo outgoing link actually connects to Survey Monkey....
  • George: Vijay, that’s the best idea I’ve heard in months! Rick, your point is well-taken. It’s really noisy, and for many retail...
  • Alan: You can use this toy model in any channel where you can sales definitively tie sales back to an advertisement or promotion using a tracking...
  • Patrick: Nice model. What I’m wondering however is what type of net sales you should include. I believe these should be the sales resulting...
  • Vijay R: With mobile phones being ubiquitous, why not use them as a channel to measure effect of online on offline sales? For instance, offer a...
  • George: Not all of our clients do think this way. Many do, but others are more concerned about share of voice, and the trappings of a good program....
  • Jim Novo: George, I have to ask the same question I asked Alan on his “melons” post - how do we get people to care about profits? Every...
  • Rick Galan: Even doing specific geo-targeted tests really don’t get us all of the way there though. There is so much fluctuation in consumer...
  • Andrew: $800 billion is perhaps “only” 5% of GDP, but it exceeds all of the federal government’s other (individual) outlays....

Blog Stats

  • Posts: 802
  • Words: 356,638
  • Comments: 1,584

Administration