How is a browser downloading an html file any different than requesting a PDF other than size? If anything it's useful to be able to pop it over into the Documents app and read later.
I guess it's not responsive but to be honest that's a feature not a bug lol. I guess the editorial concern is the bigger issue.
"Downloading" here means that it sends something to your downloads folder and doesn't participate in the normal browser UI. When I use a browser, I generally expect to use its UI. If it transferred a PDF but showed it in the normal UI (colloquially not referred to as "downloading," although yes, it still is an inbound transfer of data), it'd be less annoying.
geofft has it - I wasn't saying pdfs were annoying, but rather that it's annoying to click on a pdf (or html or anything else) and have it save something to my hard drive rather than displaying the damn thing. First, I want to see it, not save it; and second, I want to decide for myself what to save locally. Anyhow, no big deal! just a pet peeve
I guess it's not responsive but to be honest that's a feature not a bug lol. I guess the editorial concern is the bigger issue.