https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52881
--- Comment #3 from Tomer Cohen <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #2) > What do you mean by the default pdf viewer? > > WMF wikis have http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfHandler which > vastly > improves default MediaWiki handling of PDF files The extension above convert PDF files to set of images, while each page in the document is represented by the page image, and linked to the page before and after, and each page require loading the webpage over and over. By using a desktop PDF viewer (or a browser plugin) the user is seeing the whole document, making it easier to navigate between pages. pdf.js try to do the same in the browser, so users will get better user interface while reading PDF documents online. While the current implementation require some server side processing, pdf.js does load the original PDF file and show it in the browser canvas, so implementing it won't require additional changes on the server and can work side-by-side with the current PDF extension which I feel most users dislike. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
