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My respect for how hard it is to convert from .pdf to HTML just went waaaay up. Scribd must have really thought displaying in HTML5 was worth a lot of trouble
by gregstoll 16y ago
My respect for how hard it is to convert from .pdf to HTML just went waaaay up. Scribd must have really thought displaying in HTML5 was worth a lot of trouble if they went to all this effort to be precise!
- panacea 16y agoTheir entire business model involves displaying PDF content on the internet. The fact they have to jump through hoops to achieve that, while potentially impressive, is a function of their entire RFB (reason for being... I just coined the term).
- panacea 16y ago"Raison d'être" actually. Damn you France ;]
- points 16y agoWhilst technically impressive, it reminds me of the 'NASA spent millions developing a pen that writes in space vs Russians used a pencil'. Googles competing pdf reader just renders pdfs into images which also have selectable text.
- prs 16y agoAs for the NASA story, you might find this link interesting: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp