>On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:05:34 +0300 >Raphaël Benzazon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I hope the dev is moving ahead nicely. I think it is proceeding well. > I have to admit that the first and last scribd publication that I visited > was making my powerful desktop PC hang. That could be caused by anything - user error? ;o) But why bring scribd into this? > It seems that the html is not the solution when it comes to reproduce or > convert publication for internet. Sweeping statement. Not necessarily true either. Markup changes constantly. > It was so slow compared the the previous flash version, that was > painful to accept that scribd made such a bad technological choice. Again, not sure what that statement has to do with SWFTools. > Maybe they listen too much the the pseudo prohet Jobs. .. co-founder and CEO of consumer electronics company Apple Inc? ;o) What has he to do with all this? Regards, Chris ( retiring - not surprisedly - somewhat confused ) > Greetings > > Raphaël > > Le 09/05/2010 05:41, Matthias Kramm a écrit : > > On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 12:44:57PM +0200, filip > > sound<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Matthias, i can't believe all this... > >> are you serious? you want the browser to render complex > >> graphics/shapes/gradients and texts (pdf) all in html? > > Well, what Scribd currently does is text and bitmaps. > > Vector shapes (gradients etc.) are in my queue, problem is that > > cross-browser > > compatibilty of SVG, Canvas etc. is much worse than that of custom > > fonts. > > > >> the performance will > >> not be anything near the performance you get when running it on a plugin > >> that has full access to the cpu. > > Why? The browser has full access to the CPU, too, after all. > > Also, Javascript engines have gotten ridiculously fast. > > > > Matthias > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- -- Chris <[email protected]>
