On 1 Dec 2008, at 2:11 PM, Joachim Blaabjerg wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been frustrated with the lack of a universal browser plugin for > viewing PDF files on Mac for a while now. Safari has PDFkit, but all > the > alternative browsers are basically left out in the cold. I've used > Skim as > my PDF reader for a while now, and I absolutely love it. Has anyone > investigated how feasible it would be to develop a Skim browser > plugin? > > Cheers, > Joachim
Not. A browser plugin would be a completely unrelated app from Skim. Moreover, it's specific feature set would include none of what makes Skim special, as it is orthogonal to browsing. The difficulty in writing a browser plugin is almost completely about writing a browser, the PDF viewing part is almost trivial using PDFKit (it does not require much more than the available sample code). So there really is no reason why we should develop a browser plugin. Moreover, for the main alternative FireFox a plugin is already available from <http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/ >. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
