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Fancy PDF viewer #13

Open michalgm opened 10 years ago

michalgm commented 10 years ago 
Can we use a fancier PDF reader like-> http://issuu.com/mickeyellinger/docs/break1
michalgm commented 10 years ago

We could, but I'd argue against it. There's a reason why you don't see these on most websites. As far as I know, all of those are based on Flash, which is pretty much dying out in favor of open standards. Both Chrome and Firefox (not sure about IE) have native methods of displaying PDFs which don't require extra software to work, and that's what most people are used to.

nbdm1284 commented 9 years ago

cool, makes sense. Just curious, what are some open standards for flash? This is off topic but the flash on my ibook basically cant update anymore because the operating system is too old. So many sites I can't watch video. Is there something I can use that let's me watch current content with my old OS?

michalgm commented 9 years ago

There are no open standards for flash - flash is a proprietary product from Adobe, which is why it sucks that it gained so much traction. Thankfully, web standards and browsers have caught up and many sites that used flash are replacing them with open standards-based solutions.

There have been some projects to try to essentially reverse-engineer the flash protocol to make viewer plugins, but I don't know a whole lot about it.

On 10/20/2014 12:00 PM, nbdm1284 wrote:

cool, makes sense. Just curious, what are some open standards for flash? This is off topic but the flash on my ibook basically cant update anymore because the operating system is too old. So many sites I can't watch video. Is there something I can use that let's me watch current content with my old OS?

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