Brilliant. The idea that loading a PDF won't cause a horrible browser freeze-up then require controls unrelated to the rest of the browsing experience is quite a lovely one.
I wonder what impact this will have on scribd, at least the 'avoid pdf pain' side of their business?
> I wonder what impact this will have on scribd, at least the 'avoid pdf pain' side of their business?
There's a way to answer that. What is their userbase like, and do they run Chrome? If the primary browser is still IE (and it kind of seems to me like 'easing PDF pain' is incongruous with people who have total understanding and control of their interaction with the internet) then scribd will be safe for... how long did it IE6 last? Probably about that long.
True, true. Perhaps Google can use this as a selling point to ordinary users? Though of course a large number of these are going to be using computers at work which usually means IE[6-8].
I wonder what impact this will have on scribd, at least the 'avoid pdf pain' side of their business?