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I just saw the new HTML docs for the first time using Chrome on Linux and it blew my mind. It needs a bit of polish still it seems on some of the font anti-ali

by rit 16y ago

I just saw the new HTML docs for the first time using Chrome on Linux and it blew my mind. It needs a bit of polish still it seems on some of the font anti-aliasing but overall it's amazing. Lightweight, easy to scroll, fast and oh - look... my CPU usage isn't spiking to 70% because no flash is running :) Great work guys - you really have upped the ante and I hope given Flash the deathstroke by proving it's doable. I'd recommend if possible that you provide some of your tools and code to the web as open source - if you can make it easier for other people to dump Flash you could truly start a revolution worth joining.

matthiaskramm 16y ago
We're looking into releasing as much of our HTML5 conversion as possible as open source. For starters, basic technical details on how our conversion works will appear on our tech blog http://coding.scribd.com http://coding.scribd.com in the next few days.
- jasim 16y ago
  Awesome! I don't think even Google did that.
qhoxie 16y ago
A number of our engineers, particularly those who made this all possible, will be adding posts to our coding blog in the coming weeks. They should help kickstart any effort to render as we have. http://coding.scribd.com/ http://coding.scribd.com/
- bramstein 16y ago
  Nice, I would be particularly interested in the conversion from PDF to HTML, and how you handle the word-spacing and line breaking. I've been doing some work on rendering TeX-like data in HTML (http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/ http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/) and it would be great to see how you are solving similar problems (assuming you're willing to share these kind of details.)