A Minute With Brendan

Taking the web by storm, PDF.js is a PDF viewer implementation done entirely in open web technologies by some of the fine folks at Mozilla. Bringing the pixel publishing perfection that is PDF down to the JS layer is something that seems obvious, but has yet to be done - imagine a world without plugins (and all the happy people). Listen on Brendan's take of where it is and most importantly where it is going.

• PDF.js
• Longer explanation by Andreas Gal
• PDF.js Guts
• PDF.js IRC chat room
• PDF.js wiki
• Follow... @andreasgal
• Demo
• Pure JavaScript PDF Reader
• Goal is display PDF in canvas using JavaScript.
• Still in process, covering more of the PDF spec.
• Demonstrate that it is possible to have an in-Firefox, memory-safe PDF experience.
• PDF.js to be fast and cover the most common cases, not replace a full reader, just replace most of its use cases.
• Tricks for speed where borrowed from various query libraries.
• First in a series of efforts to move plugins into the JS space.
• Google NativeClient.