http://simonwillison.net/2010-06-30T13:04:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-06-30T13:04:00+00:002010-06-30T13:04:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jun/30/repolygonizing/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://coding.scribd.com/2010/06/24/repolygonizing-fonts/">Repolygonizing Fonts</a></strong></p> Part of Scribd’s fascinating series of posts explaining how their document conversion technology works. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://coding.scribd.com/">coding@scribd</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fonts">fonts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scribd">scribd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2010-05-07T12:12:00+00:002010-05-07T12:12:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/7/paper/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5">Paper 5 | Scribd</a></strong></p> A more impressive example of Scribd’s new HTML/CSS document viewer: a mathematics-heavy LaTeX paper by one of Scribd’s engineers. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1326047">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/latex">latex</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scribd">scribd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2010-05-07T12:09:00+00:002010-05-07T12:09:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/7/scribd/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5">Scribd in HTML5</a></strong></p> Outstanding piece of engineering work from Scribd—they can now render documents using HTML, webfonts and a ton of CSS absolute positioning (using ems rather than pixels) instead of Flash. Nothing to do with HTML5 of course, which is rapidly replacing Ajax as the most mis-applied terminology on the Web. That nit-pick feels pretty insignificant compared to their overall achievement though—being able to convert any formatted document (.doc, pdf etc) in to HTML and CSS that displays correctly is a real leap forward. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css3">css3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scribd">scribd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webfonts">webfonts</a></p>

2007-04-25T19:22:55+00:002007-04-25T19:22:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Apr/25/home/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/">Scribd</a></strong></p> This appears to be social software for the huge population of people who can’t imagine creating anything without using Word. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bemused">bemused</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scribd">scribd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-software">social-software</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/word">word</a></p>