Scribd launches new platform and iPaper

Re:Scribd launches new platform and iPaper by gojomo on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @01:31PM (#119077)

Kinda funny how Scribd is using one Adobe platform -- Flash (esp. FlashPlayer) -- to chip away at another Adobe Platform -- PDF (Adobe Reader and Acrobat).

I used to dislike both Flash plug-in launches and PDF Reader launches equally. Now, the combination of Adobe's work on making the Flash Player launch faster (helped along by the format's ubiquity -- it's probably already running in another tab), plus FlashBlock, means Flash is much less annoying than PDF.

So: bravo, Scribd, for marginalizing PDF even further.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Scribd launches new platform and iPaper by atoulouse on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @05:08AM (#119592)

I wouldn't applaud them for marginalizing PDF so much as applaud them for providing a better alternative for online content. OS X's support for PDF is phenomenal, and Foxit's launchtime on Windows is lightning fast. I can't speak for Linux (as I haven't opened a PDF on linux in some time), but I agree that where embedded content is concerned, PDF's browser integration is terrible across the board.

[ Parent | on HN ]