Hello,
I wish that Firefox included native support for pdf across all platforms.
I am struggling to choose a format for online documentation that works on Linux, Mac, and MSWindows. Firefox works well as a cross-platform framework, but the w3c format solutions (MathML, SVG, ...) are not developed. I currently plan to use ConTeXt -> TeX -> pdf, which gives excellent results in principle but doesn't work within Firefox on some platforms (such as Intel Macs).
I do not know why Mozilla leaves pdf up to plugins when plugins are not available for all platforms. I know nothing about developing for Firefox. I'm wondering if some of your people who know about pdf also know about Firefox, and maybe they could do the job for Mozilla. In my view this would be a big boost for both Firefox and pdf. Any hope?
Thanks, Max
Hi Max,
we are no developers here, or better some of us are developers, but this is a campaign to promote Free Software PDF Readers, not to develop anything.
Your idea is interesting, but I suggest that you request that feature at the mozilla mailing list, or their feature tracker.
Sorry for disappointing you.
Greetings
Henner
Max Jones schrieb:
Hello,
I wish that Firefox included native support for pdf across all platforms.
I am struggling to choose a format for online documentation that works on Linux, Mac, and MSWindows. Firefox works well as a cross-platform framework, but the w3c format solutions (MathML, SVG, ...) are not developed. I currently plan to use ConTeXt -> TeX -> pdf, which gives excellent results in principle but doesn't work within Firefox on some platforms (such as Intel Macs).
I do not know why Mozilla leaves pdf up to plugins when plugins are not available for all platforms. I know nothing about developing for Firefox. I'm wondering if some of your people who know about pdf also know about Firefox, and maybe they could do the job for Mozilla. In my view this would be a big boost for both Firefox and pdf. Any hope?
Thanks, Max