30% faster, because it's a rewrite?
SWF is a very compact format and text rendering is optimized for speed (animation). I doubt their flash viewer was built on decent code...
SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
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Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#52Earlier 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.
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.
This is worrisome. Along with my sibling commentors on this thread, I am seeing a bunch of stuff in here I am fairly sure I never authorized - all with the same date range "more than 6 months ago". I wonder if Facebook did some kind of mass update to all of its old oAuth tokens to make them all accepted, even if we had never actually confirmed them via the dialog?
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#53Heh, 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 wondered the other day who owns the html5 trademark and the logo. It should only be licensed to sites that are actually html5 - same for browsers. It shouldn't be hard to come up with some criteria for both apps and browsers as to what is html5. this definitely isn't, since the markup can't be parsed and made sense of as to what the document structure is
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but a site can't "be" HTML5. It can use technologies that require browsers which have implemented it from the HTML5 draft, but there is not a watershed to it.
I think the whole marketing fiasco has really warped the perception of what it means to use HTML5. Implemented HTML5 tech should be considered more of a supplemental library than a platform or language.
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#54This 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…
Perhaps the growth of HTML5 will save it.
I fervently hope not.
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I too went through my Facebook applications recently and there was a ton of stuff in there I never intended to authorize. Using a separate browser for Facebook sounds like a great idea.
If you use chrome, you can use an incognito window (ctrl+shift+n). You can also disable third-party cookies (just remember to delete current facebook cookies). Since iOS devices block third party cookies, most sites that wouldn't work with them enabled now do. If you use chrome, you can also disable them from being read (in about:flags). Chrome will also show an icon in the urlbar if a site wants to set third party cookies, so you can enable them for specific sites (it also has the same behaviour for blocked javascript and plugins).
The other option is to totally disable platform apps, in the privacy, applications menu. This will mean you can never log into an external site, but it also means that you can't have any applications. I would do it myself if I didn't use a third-party android application, that requires a facebook app for interaction
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wondered the other day who owns the html5 trademark and the logo. It should only be licensed to sites that are actually html5 - same for browsers. It shouldn't be hard to come up with some criteria for both apps and browsers as to what is html5. this definitely isn't, since the markup can't be parsed and made sense of as to what the document structure is
You say “should” but I wonder “why?” If the goal isn’t to certify HTML5-ness so much as increase buzz about pure-web technology – and the W3C has, I believe, confirmed the latter to be the goal of the badge/logo — then no one is harmed by the status quo and a licensing scheme would be counter-productive.
It's worse than that. The goal is to create buzz for the sake of creating buzz... the problem with marketers is that they can only hold one or two buzz-words in their head at a time, and to them it's all "what those crazy hip programmers are working on in our basement, while I'm up here looking at chicks out the window". A lot of books will be sold about HTML5 and a lot of dumb sites will claim to be using it, and pretty soon when everyone's incredibly annoyed by all the HTML5 junk content out there, the marketers will realize no one actually gave a shit in the first place, find a new buzzword, and the world will move on.
I bet if Adobe changed the name of Flash 11 tomorrow to "HTML6", the marketers would go crazy for it. So would all the idiots who have no idea how web is made, but come out in armies anytime HTML5 comes up.
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say “should” but I wonder “why?” If the goal isn’t to certify HTML5-ness so much as increase buzz about pure-web technology – and the W3C has, I believe, confirmed the latter to be the goal of the badge/logo — then no one is harmed by the status quo and a licensing scheme would be counter-productive.
It's worse than that. The goal is to create buzz for the sake of creating buzz... the problem with marketers is that they can only hold one or two buzz-words in their head at a time, and to them it's all "what those crazy hip programmers are working on in our basement, while I'm up here looking at chicks out the window". A lot of books will be sold about HTML5 and a lot of dumb sites will claim to be using it, and pr…
> I bet if Adobe changed the name of Flash 11 tomorrow to "HTML6", the marketers would go crazy for it.
Oh $deity, please don’t suggest that to Adobe marketing.
> So would all the idiots who have no idea how web is made, but come out in armies anytime HTML5 comes up.
Not sure who these supposed idiots are or where I can see them.
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#58This 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.
That's what I usually do. I normally use Firefox, but I use Chrome for Google logins and Opera for Facebook logins.
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#59I like the section on Error Handling. They do image comparison to confirm the page looks good. Does anybody know any open source library that would do this? I had tried a naive approach for something similar, and had failed miserably.
Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5
#60They did a bit more ambitious version: they're using CSS fonts and absolutely position every single letter to preserve original text layout in HTML.