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From the article: "In other words, you now have one less reason to fire up your bloated copy of Adobe Acrobat."

Using OSX's Preview PDF reader, I haven't used Adobe Acrobat for years. Preview is fast-loading, and has all the features one could want in a desktop PDF reader.

But for a browser-based reader, I could see Crocodoc being useful and certainly the interface is well-done.

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I love Preview, but have found that when I use the annotation feature and send it to others who use other PDF viewers (FoxIt, Acrobat Reader, et al) that the annotations don't always behave like they should.

Agreed. There are advantages to an HTML5 PDF reader. Aside from just being more accessible, I could see how sharing and collaboration tools become more effective with an in-browser solution.

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