4 items tagged “scribd”
2010
Repolygonizing Fonts (via) Part of Scribd’s fascinating series of posts explaining how their document conversion technology works. # 30th June 2010, 1:04 pm
Paper 5 | Scribd (via) A more impressive example of Scribd’s new HTML/CSS document viewer: a mathematics-heavy LaTeX paper by one of Scribd’s engineers. # 7th May 2010, 12:12 pm
Scribd in HTML5. Outstanding piece of engineering work from Scribd—they can now render documents using HTML, webfonts and a ton of CSS absolute positioning (using ems rather than pixels) instead of Flash. Nothing to do with HTML5 of course, which is rapidly replacing Ajax as the most mis-applied terminology on the Web. That nit-pick feels pretty insignificant compared to their overall achievement though—being able to convert any formatted document (.doc, pdf etc) in to HTML and CSS that displays correctly is a real leap forward. # 7th May 2010, 12:09 pm
2007
Scribd. This appears to be social software for the huge population of people who can’t imagine creating anything without using Word. # 25th April 2007, 7:22 pm