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by blasdel 6182 days ago
While it's nice that it doesn't look like a shit Flex app anymore, the interaction behaviors are still awful -- let me use my goddamn scroll wheel!

Google's PDF viewer used for attachments in Gmail is better by leaps and bounds -- I hope they start using it in SERPs at some point. I wonder if an API could be hacked together for use from a Firefox extension...
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earl 6182 days ago
In what browser does your scroll wheel not work? It works for me in firefox and safari.
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blasdel 6182 days ago
The Firefox 3 + Flash in the current Ubuntu.

Something else might be fucked, as none of the buttons on it's little toolbar seem to do anything.

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earl 6182 days ago
Do you have js disabled?

Will try to test on ff / ubuntu

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blasdel 6182 days ago
I do not have JS disabled, as I am not a mouthbreather.

Just checked at home on Gentoo x86_64 / FF-3.0.10 / Flash-10.0.22.87 -- and got identical behavior.

The old iPaper works, except that when embedded normally the scroll wheel doesn't work (but it does when viewing the swf directly).

The new iPaper fails embedded or directly -- clicking / dragging and the contextual menu works, but none of the toolbar items work. Scrolling doesn't work at all.

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