{"id":7021,"date":"2013-02-21T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2013-02-21T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:55:57","slug":"pdf-js","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/pdf-js\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF.js"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/19\/firefox-introduces-pdf-viewer-to-browse-the-web-without-interruption\/\">Mozilla<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/19\/firefox-introduces-pdf-viewer-to-browse-the-web-without-interruption\/\"><p>Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux introduces a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2013\/01\/11\/mozilla-tests-a-built-in-secure-pdf-viewer-in-firefox-beta-leveraging-the-power-of-html5\/\">built-in browser PDF viewer <\/a>that allows you to read PDFs directly within the browser, making reading PDFs easier because you don&rsquo;t have to download the content or read it in a plugin like Reader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=5251760\">Hacker News<\/a> notes that the PDF viewer is implemented in 35K lines of JavaScript. It&rsquo;s impressive that the performance is apparently acceptable even on older hardware. Presumably this is also more secure than using a native plug-in.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla: Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux introduces a built-in browser PDF viewer that allows you to read PDFs directly within the browser, making reading PDFs easier because you don&rsquo;t have to download the content or read it in a plugin like Reader. Hacker News notes that the PDF viewer is implemented in 35K lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[279,346,30,32,345,48],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-javascript","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-pdf","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}