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If anyone is confused like me: It looks like Github will now show PDFs inline.
It took me a minute to figure out that the GIF was a demo (and this had nothing to do with rendering PDFs into realspace using a 3d printing robot), and the page was from github's official blog.
This is partly serious and I think GitHub is awesome.
I don't understand it... what's the benefit of this as opposed to just embedding an iframe? And whats the role of pdf.js here? They seem to just show images of the pages - non interactive and non-selectable. When you are using pdf.js, you can actually get a nice embedded viewer exactly like firefox has (and similar to chrome). And the embedded pdf.js viewer would also be more secure than the iframe, if that's your co…
is there a way to render pdf into html that can be viewed in a browser?
Now they are going to show json, xml, yaml, graphviz, audio files, video files, display docx, xlsx, pptx, prettify your minified code, build a database for you from SQL backups and let you query it, set up an environment from your .env files and give you a shell prompt, show you a rendered DOM from your HTML files and virtual dom declarations, display structured data from microformats, microdata and json-ld, let you…
If GitHub continues on this track of making content available directly in the browser, the use cases are endless as a service. When someone, and someone will, makes git accessible to the general public, features like these will propel GitHub into the general consumer space.
I've been using GitHub a lot lately for storing my class notes and this is really awesome. I use an app which allows Markdown/mathematical LaTeX and renders it to a PDF and previously they were impossible to view on mobile because of how raw assets are served.