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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 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 bgarbiak »

william42 wrote: post #29
hbar wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Take a look at Ghostery or Disconnect.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by kreek »

nkassis wrote: post #18
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.

Can't speak for PowerPoint, but my company does print to web to print again and our issues with HTML were always how precise it was in terms of rendering text and graphics:

Font rendering: With flash you can embed fonts and have them render pixel perfect across browsers. Now with WOFF fonts (see google fonts, font squirrel, typekit) and CSS3 you can pretty reliably embed custom fonts in HTML.

Graphics: Flash was first of all a vector animation tool so this was its strong suit for many years. Now you can use libs like raphealjs, d3js, and fabricjs to render vectors with svg/vml or canvas.

I'll note that SVG could do much of this years ago, however IE not supporting it until IE9 pretty much killed its progress. If SVG fixed multiline text (it uses tspans to break up lines), I think it would be a better solution than canvas for rendering graphics and rich documents in the browser.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by kbd »

altrego99 wrote: post #26
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.

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.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by masklinn »

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!

Save yourself the trouble and go with Speakerdeck directly. It's lovely — at least as a consumer of presentations — all my trips through Speakerdeck have been absolute pleasures so far.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by przemoc »

masklinn wrote: post #35
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!

Save yourself the trouble and go with Speakerdeck directly. It's lovely — at least as a consumer of presentations — all my trips through Speakerdeck have been absolute pleasures so far.

Speakerdeck doesn't have full-screen view, so it cannot be treated seriously, at least for screening or just careful viewing purposes - I have to download PDF after all. OTOH as a presentation DB it looks rather ok.

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by nikcub »

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 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

Re: SlideShare ditches Flash for HTML5

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Post by jswinghammer »

kreek wrote: post #33
nkassis wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Can't speak for PowerPoint, but my company does print to web to print again and our issues with HTML were always how precise it was in terms of rendering text and graphics: Font rendering: With flash you can embed fonts and have them render pixel perfect across browsers. Now with WOFF fonts (see google fonts, font squirrel, typekit) and CSS3 you can pretty reliably embed custom fonts in HTML. Graphics: Flash was firs…

This is pretty much what I ran into. That and we had a business requirement that it worked in IE 6. At that point Flash is going to be your best bet and even that has cross browser issues from time to time.
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