On: PDF Reader in JavaScript

[Gerdus]

Sweet. Scribd has an HTML5 document viewer so a PDF viewer is certainly doable. Maybe this will be included someday as a minimal PDF viewer in firefox.

Now all we need is a proper javascript printing api and almost all business application can be done in the browser.

[windsurfer → Gerdus]

But this is pure client-side. Scribd does server-side generation of the HTML5 page.

[skimbrel → windsurfer]

Yeah. If this gets more robust and productized, it just might eat Scribd's lunch.

[webXL → skimbrel]

And Adobe's

[dualogy → webXL]

...not sure. They're not exactly charging for Adobe Reader. If end users or site owners switch to a less bloated viewer, they still keep using Adobe's PDF format.