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by pytxab 16y ago
Personally, the "Undo Send" feature is one of my all-time favorites in Gmail. A lot of people are comparing it to an outbox, but while the two are functionally similar, they are psychologically different. The undo send simply gives you a
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by pytxab 16y ago
Scribd is hiring interns, both for the summer and for during the school year. We have two interns now and it's working out great. http://www.scribd.com/jobs
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Cute cartoon visualization of Scribd's HTML5 conversion process(htmlimg4.scribdassets.com)
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by pytxab 16y ago
JODConverter is definitely a reasonable solution for most applications. You can also write a Python script that leverages OpenOffice's Python UNO API to do the same thing - a basic script that turns Office files into PDF's is only ~20 line
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by pytxab 16y ago
Before you build it, you might be interested to know that Scribd (and Docstoc, and others) have long had API's that offer this as a free service. We have seen pretty good usage at Scribd, but never enough to think that we could charge for
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by pytxab 16y ago
The best way by far is wkhtmltopdf, because it uses webkit to render the page. Most other open source projects use a toy HTML renderer, which is not going to work for in-the-wild webpages.
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by pytxab 16y ago
Alexa data on Scribd is generally pretty accurate, actually. But the time on site measurement is not. I could share screenshots of our Google Analytics time on site graph, but the hard-core conspiracy theorists would just claim we'd 'shopp
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by pytxab 16y ago
Doubt it. This isn't a big enough feature to be driven by that situation. It sounds like a routine product improvement to me.
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by pytxab 16y ago
So, curious what people think about this. Imagine you were running foursquare. Would you block check.in? I could see an argument for it. If Foursquare blocked them, it would be difficult for them to gain traction. And as the front-runne
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by pytxab 16y ago
Thanks very much for the feedback! We'll investigate all of these. Opera support has become a high priority fix for us.
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by pytxab 16y ago
Whoa. That's .... not good. What OS? And you're viewing the http://www.scribd.com/html5 document?
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by pytxab 16y ago
Check it out on this baby: http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5 That's a LaTeX paper by one of the guys who built the reader.
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by pytxab 16y ago
Totally hear you. For the first version we focused on making it work on browsers that support @font-face. The next version will be all about making it work pretty well (if not perfectly) on browsers that don't. That's a great point, thoug
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by pytxab 16y ago
Excellent point about the netbook screens. Thanks!
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by pytxab 16y ago
Actually, browsers often implement features that aren't in a standard, just because they think it's a good idea. Some of those end up being memorialized by the W3C and part of HTML. Many of the features of HTML5 started that way, includin
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by pytxab 16y ago
As the article points out, they are only using parts of HTML5 that are supported by older browsers, including IE6.
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by pytxab 16y ago
This article basically describes my experience exactly. If you have been told you have RSI, do NOT ignore this possibility.