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They also display office docs. While viewing office docs isn't a common thing for me, I'd much rather see them in a flash widget than boot up OpenOffice.
by acgourley 18y ago
They also display office docs. While viewing office docs isn't a common thing for me, I'd much rather see them in a flash widget than boot up OpenOffice.
- elad 18y agoReally, if you have an office doc that you want to put online, then why not export it as a pdf?
- acgourley 18y ago<devils advocate> 1) You want people to eventually download and re-edit, but in the mean time (or for some people) you just want to allow them to see it in their browser. 2) The adobe pdf plug-in is less than spectacular, even if you do go to all the trouble to export your office docs to pdf. 3) I'm not sure, but the pdf conversion from the 3 Office document formats must be fairly lossy. Then again, I don't know that the office document conversion to ipaper is any better. 4) The user might not have Office or a suitable clone handy. Also, this is only slightly related to what you're saying, but you could imagine Scribd supporting more obscure document formats which are not readily converted to pdf's.
- elad 18y agoGood points. Especially no. 1. However, the eventuality of it makes it unlikely IMO. The web is about here and now. Why not just use a wiki?
- mtts 18y agoThat is pretty much the only thing I can see scribd being useful for, but, as I said elsewhere in this thread, Google's cache is now making those available in HTML as well, so it's not a unique selling point for Scribd.