Re: [Swftools-common] Swftools, PDF and HTML5

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The dilemma of Internet is
I feel like it needs to reinvent the wheel every 10 years....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Kramm" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] Swftools, PDF and HTML5


> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 11:25:22AM +0200, Martin Perez <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> > It looks like though that market is moving towards HTML5 and many players
> > are moving their flash based viewers from flash to this standard. So a 
> > few
> > questions arise with regards to swftools and custom viewers. So, is there
> > any plans to provide tools to move from flash to html5? Some kind of
> > swftohtml5.
>
> I do have plans to open-source building blocks for converting documents
> to HTML5. That is, it's something I want to do.
> It's yet way too early to provide any details or time estimates though.
>
> One of the many questions is whether to incorporate things like this
> into swftools (possibly renaming it), or to start a new project centered
> around document conversions in general, as oposed to SWF.
>
> pdf2swf, while popular, has always had a different scope than all the
> other parts of swftools, so maybe it (and it's descendants) deserve its'
> own project.
>
> > Any plans to an html5 basic viewer?
>
> Probably not. Same as with pdf2swf, the best approach was always to give
> people a basic conversion solution, and let them craft their own UI
> around it.
>
> > Or alternatively, what would
> > be the necessary steps to move our documents converted with swftools to
> > html5.
>
> Well, right now Flash has still a very high penetration, so let's not
> be hasty. pdf2swf still gets the job done, and I'm still actively
> supporting it.
> That being said, once the time has come for a pdf2html5, I'm sure
> there'll be a swf2html5 as well- in the same way that there currently
> are swf2pdf (etc.) tools that convert (pdf2swf generated) swf files
> to other formats.
>
> Also, for the curious, here are a few links to the new HTML5
> conversion technology of Scribd:
>
> Keynote from our CTO:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wultk6iKXk&feature=PlayList&p=B415D73E4A22F82E&playnext_from=PL&index=8
> HTML5 example documents:
>    http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5
>    http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5
> Engineering blog (will start containing HTML5 technology posts on Monday):
>    http://coding.scribd.com/
>
> Matthias