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SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by revscat »

esdweb wrote: post #10

This article could be the press release (or footnotes to it) that Jobs never wrote or would write. What I mean is, when Steve Jobs announced a couple of years ago that Apple would go HTML5 instead of Flash, there was great oohing and ahhing but no concise explanation for those of us lesser mortals as to why HTML5 is the better path. And this article does it in a couple of hundred words.Specifically: 1) From iPhone to…

Actually, Jobs did write in some detail on this very subject:

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

He specifically mentioned the same points you brought up, plus a few others.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by dxbydt »

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!

I put my math thesis ( PDF file ) on scribd and sent a link to my professor. He was like, you want me to pay $20 for your thesis ? It was quite embarassing considering he was on my thesis committee..morover the equations in the PDF were messed up when I accessed them through scribd, though if I download the PDF and access thru Adobe reader, everything looks okay.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by notatoad »

bentruyman wrote: post #13

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.

i've never thought of myself as a non-techie, but apparently i am confused about what HTML5 is as well. i was under the impression it meant rich web apps built with standard compliant technologies. there's a lot of HTML4 in HTML5, it's not exclusive to the few new elements.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by hello_moto »

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!

Speaking of Scribd. I didn't know they have a paywall so I decided to check how it works and BAM, they logged me in using my Facebook account immediately!.

I need a separate browser just for facebook.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by altrego99 »

hello_moto wrote: post #24
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!

Speaking of Scribd. I didn't know they have a paywall so I decided to check how it works and BAM, they logged me in using my Facebook account immediately!. I need a separate browser just for facebook.

Just two days ago when I decided to clean up Facebook applications, I found that I have apparently authorized Scribd to access my data 6 months ago. I never used scribd, and I am very sure I didn't authorize it consciously - there it was in my Facebook applications! Very strange.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by ortatherox »

notatoad wrote: post #23
bentruyman wrote: post #13

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.

i've never thought of myself as a non-techie, but apparently i am confused about what HTML5 is as well. i was under the impression it meant rich web apps built with standard compliant technologies. there's a lot of HTML4 in HTML5, it's not exclusive to the few new elements.

Yeah, they may be using the XHTML metatag and relying of divs, but that doesn't mean they're not using some more modern tech to get it working. CSS3 fonts are used in the slides for example.

HTML5 is pretty much an umbrella term now and I think this fits neatly into that

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by hbar »

hello_moto wrote: post #24
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!

Speaking of Scribd. I didn't know they have a paywall so I decided to check how it works and BAM, they logged me in using my Facebook account immediately!. I need a separate browser just for facebook.

Facebook disconnect is a worthwhile extension if you're using Chrome. There is a FF equivalent as well.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by william42 »

hbar wrote: post #28
hello_moto wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking of Scribd. I didn't know they have a paywall so I decided to check how it works and BAM, they logged me in using my Facebook account immediately!. I need a separate browser just for facebook.

Facebook disconnect is a worthwhile extension if you're using Chrome. There is a FF equivalent as well.

This so very much. Although I'd like one that does the same to twitter and G+ buttons...maybe I should take a look through the code for Facebook Disconnect and do it myself...

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by kreek »

Wow, nice work. As someone making the same transition for a large Flash app I can attest to how hard this is, especially for accurate font rendering. I've seen a lot of comments on HN along the lines of Flash sucks why don't you use HTML5? As the post points out it's not a trivial switch, canvas is extremely low level compared to Flash's Display List.

edit: HTML5 = abs positioned divs and CSS3 fonts in this case, plus some text rendered as part of background images, still it's really difficult to go from PDF to HTML no matter how you do it :)

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