May
7
“Adobe’s much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing. Today, most documents (PDFs, Word docs, Powerpoint slides) can mostly be viewed only as boxed off curiosities in a Flash player, not as full Web pages. Tomorrow, online document sharing site Scribd will start to ditch Flash across its tens of millions of uploaded documents and convert them all to native HTML5 Web pages.”
Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″ (TechCrunch)
Thank goodness. I like Scribd, but when presented with a document that I have to enable Flash for, I usually end up closing the window and moving on.
