On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Yousif Masoud <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Lasconic <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5 >> > > So they've decided to convert pages in the document to jpg images as can be > seen here: > > > http://htmlimg1.scribdassets.com/jwso820jat4vtds/images/1-c699aa0f30/000.jpg > > I wonder why they chose jpg. > > Google has demonstrated the beauty of text pattern recognition in png > images. > I realize the fonts have been rendered separately. Better font support in HTML5 is the only somewhat valid technical reason for favoring HTML5. Just wanted to clarify that I'm not anti-HTML5, I'm evaluating it right now. I'm just a little shocked at the way they're bringing change about I guess.
