Firefox: Render .PDF With HTML5 And JavaScript
The future looks good.
There is some good news floating around about the future of web browsers. As of today, web browsers rely on native code plugins to display PDF files, like Adobe’s PDF reader or Foxit reader. However, this is about to change.
Fortunately for all of us, the web is quickly embracing the new technologies, and thanks to that, guys at pdf.js team plan to create a Firefox extension aka a built in PDF reader which uses HTML5 to render the documents.
The good news?
This is not the Firefox exclusive software. Actually, pdf.js is an open source project which can be embraced by pretty much everyone, including other web browser vendors.
So here you have it. What are we waiting for?
[Thanks, Daniel Hendrycks]
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Here’s the project Twitter page: https://twitter.com/#!/pdfjs
And Chrome had this since?
It’s not native it’s still an extension
But at least browser vendors can integrate it if they wish.
Yes you are right.
But at least they developed and optimized it.