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It's good to know that there are alternative ways to embed PDFs, but I'm a little confused by the reaction in the comments. Is this a big improvement over simpl
by stjarnljuset 17y ago
It's good to know that there are alternative ways to embed PDFs, but I'm a little confused by the reaction in the comments. Is this a big improvement over simply using the object tag?
http://blog.flashcolony.com/?p=244 http://blog.flashcolony.com/?p=244
- blasdel 17y agoYes, for a wide variety of reasons: * Before version 8, Adobe's plugin was an epic piece of shit on all platforms - old versions are on hundreds of millions of computers! - it's still really crashy on Linux (especially in nspluginwrapper) - The only OS X browser they support is Safari, in which it is unnecessary * Google re-hosts the file for you * It is ridiculously snappy with no main-thread-blocking initialization * It will never crash your browser * Your users don't have an ingrained hatred towards it - Rebranding the free Acrobat as "Adobe Reader" was the stupidest thing they've ever done (ever hear a user say 'my Adobe is broken'?)
- seiji 17y agoI can't tell if you're being facetious in your last line, but I used to work at a place requiring, in their own words, "Adobe must be installed on every computer" long before they changed the Acrobat name.