Thanks for the replies,
I did expect "plug-ins" to be given as a reason for not moving forward,
but they'll just have to update them, just like device drivers had to be
updated for x64.
I found a similar thread on Adobe
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4047605
This is even more backward looking.
I'd expect SeaMonkey to be in the lead on this, not IE and FireFox.
Anyway, there were some positive replies above, and I do look forward to
seeing SeaMonkey in x64!
Philip Chee wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:33:02 -0200, MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 13/02/2012 16:56, Philip TAYLOR told the world:
I would add the Adobe PDF reader plug-in to this list; I believe
that it is as just as mainstream as Flash& Java, and almost
certainly more mainstream than Silverlight. I have no idea
whether Adobe yet off a 64-bit version of the plug-in.
Well... PDF is a bit more tractable problem, since there are several
vendors -- if Adobe won't release a 64-bit plugin, Foxit might, for
instance. Or Tracker (makers of PDF Xchange Viewer). Or even somebody
will take the GPL'd Sumatra and turn it into a plugin. And there's
always the pdf.js project, which should work right off the bat (although
the current version still lacks many features of current PDF viewers).
And anyway, (temporarily) losing the capability to see PDFs inside the
browser would not be as big a problem. Java, Flash and Silverlight are
used to "enhance" web pages, that is, they interact with other content,
so some sites break horribly without those plugins. Not having embedded
PDF just means you open the document in a separate window.
In fact, I don't even see the point of having a PDF plug-in. Opening the
PDF in the browser is a bad user experience, in my opinion. I have
disabled mine and never missed it -- opening a locally-cached copy of
the file in a separate viewer window is MUCH better.
The current plan is to ship native support for PDF with Firefox some
time this year using pdf.js as the basis (a PDF reader written entirely
in Javascript).
Phil
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