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Scribd Abandoning Flash for HTML5

It still doesn't make scribd any less of a vile company. Anytime I search for any documentation, they stick their arses in my face with their god awful site.
 
RIP Adobe the end is near. Just checked it out on my iPad, i was able to read a few pages.
 
Adobe should AT LEAST aknowledge that Flash, as a video container, was a temporary quick fix to a greater problem (lack of web standards for delivering rich media), in the past. Instead, they are defending there spaghetti-code runtime as "the only means to access all the videos out there", and forcing everyone to spend hardly earned hardware resources to support it. Lame!
 
I'm equally excited that more sites are converting to flash so that my PC browsing experience will be more enjoyable. It's not just cool for the iPad, it's a better trend for all browsers!
 
kinless said:
So how do they plan to gracefully degrade for IE 6/7/8 browsers, none of which support HTML5?

Unless they have some kind of fallback in place, they'll be alienating 60% of the user base out there.
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Ever heard of AJAX? MooTools? JQuery? You can do pretty cool stuff EVEN without HTML5. Which means: in many cases, Flash has been obsolete for years already.
 
Why Scribd used Flash to publish FREKN PAPER DOCUMENTS in a first place anyway!?!?!

I mean you really need to be dumb as rock to do that!

Or Apple funboi to clap to such pathetic news...

Jezuz... LOL :D

Hahahahaha...
 
In its current form, Scribd is unbearably slow - I loath to use it. I'm looking forward to something usable.

Adobe will adapt, either by improving Flash or creating tools for HTML5 authoring, or both.
 
This is great to see. Naysayers who said the web couldn't do without Flash are watching as the transition to open standards proceeds with haste. At this rate the web could be essentially Flash free in a couple of years (hopefully).
 
I'm actually beginning to be a little scared of the sheer power Jobs has nowadays within the industry.
 
The more flash is deserted and trashed publicly, the more powerful Apple and Steve Jobs look. :cool:

This is too funny. :D

Oh, and awesome btw. I hate flash. :eek:

DIE FLASH, DIE! :mad:
 
-=XX=-Nephilim said:
Why Scribd used Flash to publish FREKN PAPER DOCUMENTS in a first place anyway!?!?!

I mean you really need to be dumb as rock to do that!

Or Apple funboi to clap to such pathetic news...

Jezuz... LOL :D

Hahahahaha...
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Er... For the same reason some people make fullscreen flash sites even as of today? Because some SINGLE company spent to much effort to promote its PRPRIETARY technology as something you just can't live without?
 
Flash kicked in the nuts once again...

"Shantanu Nara......Na....Naga.....Nagana......Nogana work here anymore, anyway."
 
I'm reading some documents on my iPhone. I still don't know whether if it's HTML5 I'm lookin at or a PDF.

*checks sourcecode
 
And opera saying it's not the best?? Flash is in troooouuuuubbblllleee!

Ipads will soon be serious web browsers in the next year or so. Even though they already are!
 
Yet another site that will get terrible slow because of HTML5. HTML5 is up to 5x slower on MacOS X in Safari 4.x than the Flash plugin. On the iPhone HTML5 is up to 30 times slower than even the crappy Flash Lite plugin on other smartphones.

8 polygons on HMTL5 let the iPad already crawl. What a great web experience. Right Steve?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
 
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