SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5 • Hacker News Board

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

#11

Post by janogonzalez » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 3:42 PM UTC

Just after the launch of SpeakerDeck(http://speakerdeck.com/)...

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by kcmani » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 3:42 PM UTC

w00t, finally its here.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by bentruyman » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 3:43 PM UTC

Heh, HTML5. http://i.v3n.us/ASQf Guys, this is just a non-Flash version. But I guess blasting it out there with the HTML5 logo gets a lot more attention, at the cost of confusing non-techies about what HTML5 really is.

And trust me, this is a discussion I have ad nauseam with clients.

Regardless, I appreciate the move Slideshare.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by ashconnor » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 3:48 PM UTC

Lewisham wrote: post #4

This is great news. After Scribd's terrible move to lock my content away behind their paywall, I can now start uploading my slides to Slideshare and get the same HTML5 loveliness. Bye, bye, Scribd!

Indeed. I recently ran YSlow? on my blog and it was a embedded Slideshare in Flash that was causing load times to increase 400%.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by dgroves » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 3:49 PM UTC

Indeed very, very good news - this will be the first slide sharing site that allows me to view their content as flash is software I am not willing to run on my machines.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by jswinghammer » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 3:57 PM UTC

This is a lot easier if you don't support PowerPoint animations. A few years ago I used to work on a competing product and we did support PowerPoint animations. I thought about how to support animations in HTML and JavaScript quite a bit and it just became obvious that doing it in Flash was far easier.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by mattmanser » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 4:01 PM UTC

Are fonts working for anyone else? As they're all pixellated horribleness for me now. They look especially bad in their demo. Probably just a small bug.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by nkassis » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 4:02 PM UTC

jswinghammer wrote: post #16

This is a lot easier if you don't support PowerPoint animations. A few years ago I used to work on a competing product and we did support PowerPoint animations. I thought about how to support animations in HTML and JavaScript quite a bit and it just became obvious that doing it in Flash was far easier.

Could you list some of the issues you had a few years ago? I'd like to know if there now solutions to your problems or if you'd still have issues.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by phzbOx » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 4:04 PM UTC

When Apple announced that they didn't want flash on their i(pod|pad|phone), I instantly knew I'd see this in the forthcoming months:

  1) The exact same HTML5 documents work on the iPhone / iPad, 
       Android phones/tablets, and modern desktop browsers."

That was such a huge move from them. I couldn't imagine another big company than Apple to do that.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by danw » Tue, Sep 27, 2011, 4:10 PM UTC

Does that include putting hideous adverts across the slides in 'HTML5'?

(I miss the early scribd & slideshare, before they started trying to make money to survive by plastering the place with adverts)