It's a huge relief to look at a file on scribd and have the file be HTML, rather than flash.
I used to avoid scribd, but now I'll happily use it. As well as the pauses and slowdowns, even the flash text rendering is wretchedly bad in comparison with the HTML rendering I get in Safari.
Scribd have done a great job in moving over to HTML, and I'd expect the growth to keep coming. Good on them!
Can't find the transition item here on YCN, but the first article of the transition to HTML is:
Same here. I was using OReilly Safari the other day, which also hosts PDFs like Scribd. I kept cutting and pasting sample code from I book I'd purchased, then wondering why the code had ransom spaces inserted into it that kept breaking things.
And then I remembered: Safari is Flash, Scribd is HTML. This is why Safari cut and paste doesn't work.
I went from despising scribd to not minding it. Flash was inferior to pdf in a number of ways and didn't have many advantages; html actually has some advantages.
I used to avoid scribd, but now I'll happily use it. As well as the pauses and slowdowns, even the flash text rendering is wretchedly bad in comparison with the HTML rendering I get in Safari.
Scribd have done a great job in moving over to HTML, and I'd expect the growth to keep coming. Good on them!
Can't find the transition item here on YCN, but the first article of the transition to HTML is:
http://coding.scribd.com/2010/05/17/facing-font-in-html/