Scribd job posting (using scribd)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11439198/Scribd-job-posting

by axod • 17 years ago

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pclark3• 17 years ago

you should have displayed it in book mode -- then its a real job posting!

alaskamiller2• 17 years ago

It says I have to download some program called Adobe Flash to view this.

pclark3• 17 years ago

Scribd is great because rather than using PDF like most browsers, it uses flash

gaius2• 17 years ago

The world is still awaiting a good use for Flash.

I am, I suspect, much older than most HN readers (early 30s) and I remember a thing called RTF. It amuses me to see it constantly reinvented. And not improved.

andr2• 17 years ago

...and shows documents in a 400px-wide box, so there's space for advertisement on the side.

jrockway• 17 years ago

I like their error message:

"Hello, you have an old version of Adobe Flash Player. To use iPaper (and lots of other stuff on the web) you need to get the latest Flash player."

I guess they are trying to say, "It's not just us that wants to depend on a big chunk of proprietary software! It's EVERYONE!"

Incidentally, since I removed Flash, the only "problem" is that ads don't work. (YouTube videos can be played externally, and the ads inside them obviously go away when you do that.)

All in all, Scribd should really degrade to HTML for those without Flash. Either generate images with gv, or extract the text like Google does.

axod2• 17 years ago

How would they be able to display plain text/images without flash? I'm not following. Is that even possible???

marketer4• 17 years ago

Do you download it every time you post Youtube links on your blog?

ivankirigin• 17 years ago

is there a second page or am I missing something?

fallentimes• 17 years ago

Here's the original:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=451733

andr2• 17 years ago

They should get WebKit running in that Flash widget. Now that would be seriously redundant.

axod2• 17 years ago

Cool idea!

marketer4• 17 years ago

It's funny you mention that. In flash, text can be formatted with simple HTML markups for styling (tags like <bold>, etc..). It also uses CSS styling for components, although it's a fairly limited form of CSS.

The AIR runtime already has an HTML component*. All Adobe would need to do is stick it into the flash runtime and you could make it work with Flex :)

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/HTML.ht... )

andreyf2• 17 years ago

But can the AIR HTML component run Flash?

Scribd job posting (using scribd)

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