Jumping in at the deep end. tcworld conference report part 2

by Ulrike Parson on November 18, 2019

I'm an old hand at the tcworld conference and shouldn't be too excited when giving a talk. But when Dieter Gust and I brought our crackpot idea to the stage, the documentation trend slam, I started to feel queasy. What were we thinking?

The documentation trend slam at the tcworld conference with Ulrike Parson and Dieter Gust

We discussed five controversial topics, such as:

Do we still need to print or can we deliver all our content electronically?
Will HTML5 replace PDF?
Who needs iiRDS?

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