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The issue with CSS is not too much freedom. It is that as an API, it is frankly, retarded, horrible and ridiculous.


Long ago I made interfaces with image maps. Just one giant jpg with all links boxes and text on it.

https://www.w3schools.com/htmL/html_images_imagemap.asp

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...

I've seriously considered doing websites in pdf too but still have to run into a situation dramatic enough for it to be worth it. Now that I think about it again "installing" a pdf on a pc could cover a lot of app like functionality. Most important is to make it as convenient as possible to remember your business exists and interact with it.

http://fpdf.org/en/script/ex95.pdf


active (PDF) documents seem to have become a thing on eReaders, especially pen-based ones; mostly they leverage clever linking and bookmarking, and not much more, though.




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