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Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″

6 May 2010

​Tomorrow, online document sharing site Scribd will start to ditch Flash across its tens of millions of uploaded documents and convert them all to native HTML5 Web pages. Not only will these documents look great on the iPad’s no-Flash browser, but it will bring the richness of fonts and graphics from documents to native Web pages.

Impressive stuff – I’m interested to see what the markup is going to be like (I’ve never seen a machine write good markup).

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