Re:Scribd in HTML
by aboodman on Saturday May 08, 2010 @02:45AM
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I wonder how Scribd pulled this off wrt HR. I mean, they must have had a sizable investment in Flash engineering. Did those people leave? Did they just start doing HTML stuff instead?
Back in the day when I was doing webdev, there was a pretty serious schism between webdevs and flash devs, and never the twain met. Maybe this is less true now.
Re:Scribd in HTML
by ilike on Saturday May 08, 2010 @04:49AM
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I dont think Scribd made too much investment in Flash developers. On server side they were using "PDF2SWF" released under GPL by Swftools.org. My understanding is that, initially they were using 'FlashPaper' to display documents in front end.
Back in the day when I was doing webdev, there was a pretty serious schism between webdevs and flash devs, and never the twain met. Maybe this is less true now.