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True, but not convinced enough people care about custom fonts over rendering an image. It ends up being pretty much the same experience for them. (Actually cust
by axod 16y ago
True, but not convinced enough people care about custom fonts over rendering an image. It ends up being pretty much the same experience for them. (Actually custom fonts may well load slower for users, so it's a worse experience in some ways).
- stanleydrew 16y agoBut Google can't crawl images...
- earl 16y agoYou're seriously so pissy about scribd that you're currently objecting to their using standard html instead of images? Get a life.
- axod 16y agoI'm trying to figure out why they're bothering to solve something that's already been solved pretty well. eg: http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu... Users won't see any difference, or care. I do think scribd up to now has been pretty bad for the web, locking plain text documents and images up in their walled garden. Maybe they can change that, but what value can they actually add? What problem are they solving?
- tyler 16y agoAnd of course, you know that users won't see any difference or care, despite never having seen, let alone used it. Just because you think the problem has been solved well enough, doesn't mean everyone does. After all, who needs a refrigerator when you have an ice box?