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ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

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Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

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Post by burkaman »

shrimpx wrote: post #2

Since the article doesn't link to any example HTML article, here's a random link: https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.12451v1 It's cool that it has a dark mode. Didn't see a toggle but renders in the system mode. Overall will make arXiv a lot more accessible on mobile.

And here's the PDF of the same paper for comparison: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.12451.pdf

Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

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Post by gwern »

alephnerd wrote: post #3

This is a great UX addition. Why did it take them so long?

The conversion is still very error-prone. It can't convert a lot of packages, and the last paper I read, StarVector, half the HTML version is just missing. (I think it hit an error at a figure of some sort.) I reported an error, but I've been reporting errors against the ar5iv and abstracts for years now and the long tail of problems just seems like an incredible slog.

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Post by shusaku »

Seems like the references aren’t working very well.

I really want journals to have two way links in a paper. I get google scholar alerts about certain papers being cited, and I want to skip to “why did they cite this? Did they use it, improve it, it just mention it?”

Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

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Post by eviks »

alephnerd wrote: post #3

This is a great UX addition. Why did it take them so long?

Because this is a rather conservative field with little dependency on the general public, so without much interest in hepling disseminate the knowledge broadly & accessibly (relative to other priorities, not absolute)
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