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Lennie
on June 15, 2011
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PDF Reader in JavaScript
Feels a bit like deja vu from the google native client. As it was proven that many, many things are already fast in JavaScript.
starwed
on June 16, 2011
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The author points out in a blog post that this, being pure .js, doesn't need any sandboxing.
Also, it'll actually be used by FF for rendering PDFs in the future, apparently.
bzbarsky
on June 16, 2011
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"Fast" is always a relative concept....
http://devongovett.github.com/pdf.js/test.html
is about 4x faster in a tip Firefox than a tip Chrome for me.
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