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I'm surprised at the meanness of some of the comments (is it contagious from TC or something?) and I'd bet five bucks that some of the very people who slammed S
by gruseom 16y ago
I'm surprised at the meanness of some of the comments (is it contagious from TC or something?) and I'd bet five bucks that some of the very people who slammed Scribd for not doing this are now slamming them for doing it. Therefore I want to say again that this is the most impressive technical pivot I've seen a startup do in a long time. What they're accomplishing here is a lot more difficult than it appears, and it's only going to get better over time -- probably much better. This is a real contribution to making the web more usable for all of us.
- Lewisham 16y agoI agree, I've started uploading my conference presentation slides to Scribd, and it's a much better experience than Scribd's Flash implementation ever was (and Slideshare's, for that matter). I tried the two sites multiple times over the years, and I never felt that there was a better experience than just putting the PDF for download. However they achieve it, with "HTML5" or hacky auto-generated HTML markup standards from before, it's a wonderful technical achievement that should be applauded.