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It's worth pointing out this is done in pure Javascript , and works by compiling PDF functions to equivalent Javascript functions which are then visible to Firefox's JIT. Despite being only around a year old, it still manages to render the majority of PDFs thrown at it (it's been my primary paper reader for the past 6 months or so). As for missing features like some complex gradients, I can't say I've missed them, ex…
Is Google plural?
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I am not against your main point but I am sure that Microsoft will provide at least 110% of funding if Google pulled their "funding".
If Microsoft were willing to provide pay as much or more, why aren't they doing it already to make Bing the default search engine?
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What rendering problem do you see with the "mechanics' secrets" PDF? AFAICT, it looks fine with Firefox 22 on OSX. What OS and Firefox version are you using?
Latest version of Firefox (32 bit) on Windows 7 x64 (fully updated). The PDF shows up as blank other than the image on the very first page. I figured. I use the following color settings in Firefox. - Use system colors (checked) - Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above (unchecked) The problem goes away if the last item is checked. Firefox by itself, nearly all websites, as well as my na…
It sounds like PDF.js has made some incorrect assumptions about default text colors. :\
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I am not against your main point but I am sure that Microsoft will provide at least 110% of funding if Google pulled their "funding".
If Microsoft were willing to provide pay as much or more, why aren't they doing it already to make Bing the default search engine?
I think this is sufficient to show that they're at least thinking about it.
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Bollocks. Chrome's PDF implementation absolutely sucks. I have numerous PDF documents which it can't handle at all. I've just opened them in Firefox 19 and they are absolutely spot on. I'm uninstalling Acrobat reader for a week to see how it goes now. Chrome never gave me that.
Can you link them please? We already have links to PDF's rendering better in Chrome. I'd like to see where pdf.js does a better job.
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Something being closed source matters to some people. You might not be one of them, but other people might have different perspectives that cause them to value an open source option above a closed source equivalent.
Yes but the masses don't care if it's open or closed source.
Now, if only Gmail would let me preview attachments in it. They do it for Chrome's plugin. I tried messing with the URL arguments, but it seems the Gmail server won't even give you the inline (ie not a download) version of the PDF if your browser doesn't pretent to be Chrome.
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If Microsoft were willing to provide pay as much or more, why aren't they doing it already to make Bing the default search engine?
This product already exists, in at least proof of concept form: http://www.firefoxwithbing.com/ I think this is sufficient to show that they're at least thinking about it.
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If Microsoft were willing to provide pay as much or more, why aren't they doing it already to make Bing the default search engine?
If you're in the US, you may not notice it, but Bing is plain awful for international users. Google has spent a considerable amount of resources improving their engine to serve results based on your location and Google's Search Engine is clearly the best by a long shot. This is also why I'm not using DuckDuckGo.