Flash looses yet another – Scribd moves to HTML5
One of the web’s largest online document sharing site has, decided to move to HTML5, leaving behind the technology that has been faithful to it for all these years – Adobe Flash.  Jared Friedman, co-founder and CTO of Scribd considers flash as a excellent platform for online games, but not everything that it is used for, and definitely not showing documents. Scribd claims that its HTML5 viewer will make it compatible with every device out there and make Scribd a more usable than before. Scribd demos its HTML5 viewer here on TechCrunch. Scribd also claims that they have tamed the issue of supporting all browsers when it comes to serving their new HTML5 viewer. Currently Scribd will go with a Flash-HTML5 model and then in 6 months from now they plan to go Flash free.
May 8, 2010
Tags: Flash Posted in: General
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Not really. It’s only because iPad don’t support Flash, some websites couldn’t afford to loose some percent of clients so they have to use HTML5.
But it doesn’t mean any:
* HTML5 cannot easily be compatible with different devices one day ppl may find. It just an upgrade version of web format and may finally not really even to a popular one (lots of ‘revolutions’ in IT world, looks great but ppl still using old ones).
* Development with Flash actually less cost and fast, HTML5 cannot possible to have the same level of user experiences Flash can reach. Once light-weight devices much popular with Flash, end users will have more chances to use Flash than iPad. (iphone is not necessary for websites like Scribd to care too much)
“Lose”
And in their demo, the font doesn’t render correctly in Firefox 3.6.3.
Too bad for them… Their current implementation is rendered correctly only on 23% of all browsers.
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