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Re: Scribd Streamlines Embedded Docs With iPaper 2

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Post by earl » Sat, Jul 11, 2009, 3:52 AM UTC

blasdel wrote: post #10

earl wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what browser does your scroll wheel not work? It works for me in firefox and safari.

The Firefox 3 + Flash in the current Ubuntu. Something else might be fucked, as none of the buttons on it's little toolbar seem to do anything.

Do you have js disabled?

Will try to test on ff / ubuntu

Re: Scribd Streamlines Embedded Docs With iPaper 2

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Post by blasdel » Sat, Jul 11, 2009, 4:15 AM UTC

earl wrote: post #11

blasdel wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Firefox 3 + Flash in the current Ubuntu. Something else might be fucked, as none of the buttons on it's little toolbar seem to do anything.

Do you have js disabled? Will try to test on ff / ubuntu

I do not have JS disabled, as I am not a mouthbreather.

Just checked at home on Gentoo x86_64 / FF-3.0.10 / Flash-10.0.22.87 -- and got identical behavior.

The old iPaper works, except that when embedded normally the scroll wheel doesn't work (but it does when viewing the swf directly).

The new iPaper fails embedded or directly -- clicking / dragging and the contextual menu works, but none of the toolbar items work. Scrolling doesn't work at all.

Re: Scribd Streamlines Embedded Docs With iPaper 2

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Post by bradgessler » Sat, Jul 11, 2009, 1:42 PM UTC

skip wrote: post #7

bradgessler wrote: post #6

I still don't get scribd: http://blog.bradgessler.com/i-dont-get-scribd

Can't agree more. And they want me to sign up in order to see or download a plain PDF, thats not going to happen.

Scribd would be much more useful if they supported predictable URLs of a document in their various formats. For example, if I uploaded My_Awesome_Document.docx, it could throw it into an URL like http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.docx and let me enter URLs like

  http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.pdf
  http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.doc

to download the various formats of the doc. an URL shortner would sweeten the deal for tweeting/sharing docs. iPaper could just be another option for sharing/embedding a doc.

I'm probably just a vocal minority.