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Netstat -vat by Sean Michael Kerner (bio)

A command line view of IT



Adobe Acrobat Presentations a no go on Google Chrome

By Sean Michael Kerner on May 27, 2009 6:25 PM
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From the 'not quite able to run everywhere' files:

I just read a story from my colleague Alex Goldman about the launch of Adobe's new Acrobat.com Presentations service. The idea sounds pretty cool to me, it extends the Acrobat Connect service (a Web presentation service) to enable users to actually build presentation.  The only problem (for me) is that I couldn't get the site to load on Google Chrome (stable 2.0.172.28).

This shocked me somewhat. Flash is Flash (and I've got Flash installed), Chrome isn't all that different from Safari (which is supported) but Adobe doesn't have support for Chrome (yet). 

Is this an issue for Adobe?  I sure think it is.  Adobe (in my humble opinion) should include support for all major browsers that support Flash (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera). To exclude Chrome (sure Chrome is new and all) is not a good idea for a vendor trying to claim broad platform support.

On the other hand, there was an issue a few months back with Microsoft Hotmail not working with Chrome. At the time there was a workaround (making Chrome look like Safari with headers) which is a 'trick' that might well work with Chrome for Acrobat.com Presentations too.

Screenshot: Acrobat.com Presentations running on Google Chrome 2.0.172.28 Credit: Sean M Kerner

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3 Comments

John Dowdell said:

Hi, Chrome should support most normal Flash work now, but in this particular application we're asking the browsers to pass along all command-key shortcuts. Browsers vary more in this area than in other areas, and so requires explicit testing against each release version people might have.

Chrome is in the overall testing matrix, but didn't make the Day One testing matrix to guarantee it works like other browsers. Should be covered soon, though.

jd/adobe

May 27, 2009 7:32 PM
Tad Staley said:

Adding to JD's comment... We have not really tested Presentations on Chrome, and there may be some small issues, but we've heard from others who are using Chrome effectively. (You may have to reload the browser after logging in, by the way). We know we need to add Chrome support - it's just that for the first release we need to focus on browsers with greater market share. Thanks for the write-up.

May 28, 2009 5:08 PM
chris bailey said:

At my college we use a different tool for working on our projects online.
Its free and needs no installation since its online, go to http://www.showdocument.com
pretty useful for me since i usually do my projects on the laptop. -chrisman

September 17, 2009 6:47 AM

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