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Sweet. Scribd has an HTML5 document viewer so a PDF viewer is certainly doable. Maybe this will be included someday as a minimal PDF viewer in firefox. Now all

by Gerdus 15y ago

Sweet. Scribd has an HTML5 document viewer so a PDF viewer is certainly doable. Maybe this will be included someday as a minimal PDF viewer in firefox. Now all we need is a proper javascript printing api and almost all business application can be done in the browser.

windsurfer 15y ago
But this is pure client-side. Scribd does server-side generation of the HTML5 page.
- skimbrel 15y ago
  Yeah. If this gets more robust and productized, it just might eat Scribd's lunch.
  - webXL 15y ago
    And Adobe's
    - dualogy 15y ago
      ...not sure. They're not exactly charging for Adobe Reader. If end users or site owners switch to a less bloated viewer, they still keep using Adobe's PDF format.