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Abandoning Adobe Flash

I think it would be a great to abandon Adobe Flash completely on Slideshare,
except for maybe integrating Youtube videos or other other "motion content".

Still images, slides - all that can be done using webstandards like javascript, ajax and xhtml.
It would have many advantages
- open standards > interoperability (full experience on phones like iPhone)
- faster (Flash is particularly slow on Macs, but also in general)
- more native experience

For normal presentations Flash can do no more than other standard web technologies can do.
In the foreseeable future it may also be possible to only use web standards for video & audio (HTML 5), although this will take some time with IE.

Skimming & Coverflow

It would be great to be able to skim through all the slides of one presentation,
similar to skimming in MobileMe web galleries (e.g. http://gallery.mac.com/emily_parker).
Cover Flow (like in iTunes / Mac OS X Finder ) for all slides of one presentation would also be very helpful. It could be realized with javascript + xhtml and as native app for the iPhone for example