Re: Announcing Project Mortar

This should have no real impact on PDF.js as a standalone project. If
our efforts on using PDFium in Firefox gives us a bigger bang for the
buck, Firefox will most likely switch to PDFium and no longer use
PDF.js though. I don't see why PDF.js wouldn't continue to live on and
continue to be used by others.

- jst


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:09 AM, Reed Loden <[email protected]> wrote:
> How does this impact the PDF.js project? Is that project considered dead
> (assuming PDFium will replace it)? Or will they somehow work together?
>
> ~reed
>
>
> On Friday, September 30, 2016, Johnny Stenback <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> In order to enable stronger focus on advancing the Web and to reduce
>> the complexity and long term maintenance cost of Firefox, and as part
>> of our strategy to remove generic plug in support, we are launching
>> Project Mortar.
>>
>> Project Mortar seeks to reduce the time Mozilla spends on technologies
>> that are required to provide a complete web browsing experience, but
>> are not a core piece of the Web platform. We will be looking for
>> opportunities to replace such technologies with other existing
>> alternatives, including implementations by other browser vendors.
>>
>> In order to keep costs low, we may use APIs internally that are not
>> considered web standards. These APIs will not be exposed to the web.
>> Solutions that both reduce our support cost, achieve the desired user
>> experience, and make use of web standards will be preferred.
>>
>> The project will start by investigating how Firefox handles PDF
>> rendering followed by looking into lower cost approaches to providing
>> Flash support as it’s usage continues to decrease. Project Mortar is
>> currently investigating using the minimum set of Pepper APIs needed to
>> support the PDFium library and the Pepper Flash plugin. If successful,
>> this work will allow us to completely remove NPAPI support from
>> Firefox once NPAPI is disabled for general plugin use.
>>
>> Keep an eye on https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project for status and
>> future updates for this project.
>>
>> - jst
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