Scribd upgrades to HTML 5

Scribd has proclaimed an upgrade to HTML 5 based- web platform after a continuous usage of Adobe for two years.

It is believed that the popular document sharing website will entirely be running on HTML 5 based web platform standards. This comes as difficult news for Adobe as it has to lose its two year client.

Apart from adopting the new web standards, the new and improved Scribd will provide support for both Microsoft Office and Google Docs documents.

The co-founder and chief technology officer at Scribd Jared Friedman said, “We were abandoning a two-year investment in Flash technology, and for a totally unproven idea. Honestly, it wasn't an easy decision. In Scribd's case, though, we got lucky, and it actually works great.”  

The procedure adopted in this allowed more than 50 million users, will be using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for web graphics along with the HTML 5 Canvas Technology for 2D graphics.