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Re:Pdf.js reached its first milestone by panabee on Monday July 04, 2011 @03:22PM (#2727536)
This is awesome. Anything to streamline the UX and eliminate the overt loading of a separate application is terrific. Hopefully Mozilla can continue to innovate and push Google on the browser front.
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Re:Pdf.js reached its first milestone by Lagged2Death on Monday July 04, 2011 @08:35PM (#2728286)
I am surprised by this point of view. It seems to me that extending the web-browser UI to display complex non-web-page documents is a bad idea, that it makes the user experience more complicated and mysterious.

Most of the time, the user-experience problem with PDFs on the web isn't that a separate app has to be started to read the PDF, but that the information in question is in a PDF at all, when a simple HTML page is generally safer and more useful.

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