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Scribd Switches To HTML5

Posted by timothy on from the let-a-thousand-documents-bloom dept.

drfreak writes "This story from OSNews describes Scribd, a site for uploading and reading documents, switching from Flash to HTML5. The major reason for the decision was that HTML5 supports all the major points of the site's previous functionality, so they saw no point in using Flash any more. The big improvement in the rollout is that documents are now first-class citizens of HTML and no longer need to sit in a Flash 'window.'"

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  1. Wow by OrwellianLurker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Completely blank page (scribd) until I enabled flash. I can't stand sites that have the most basic shit (plain text, etc) in flash. How is that even necessary? Good move getting off that Flash addiction.

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  2. Re:So What? by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the hell does some random site changing browser tech have to do with the rest of the 97 percent of the computing world that doesn't give a damn about Apple and their products?

    Just because we don't care about Apple, that doesn't mean that we want Flash; I'll celebrate the day I can finally uninstall that bloated swamp of security holes from all my PCs.

  3. "We" just did that. by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can we quit calling everything that uses HTML5 video "HTML5"?

    I'd be happy to but... what the hell are you talking about"

    Scribd is all documents, all the time. As in things you read?

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  4. Re:So What? by mike260 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good thing there's competition in the browser space then, innit?