Re: Announcing Project Mortar

On Sunday, 2 October 2016 23:27:51 UTC+1, Nicholas Nethercote  wrote:
>> Although viewing PDFs in the browser is useful, PDFs are not a fundamental part of the web.


Bit of a tangent... PDF's are important for the web, but they are very problematic (e.g. try reading an A4 formatted PDF on a small screen).

If any developers implementing PDF in Firefox are on this list, I would like to discuss how we can move away from PDF's, possibly creating a simple alternative which allows for a HTML/CSS based document to replicate many of PDF's strengths:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237990

https://github.com/craigfrancis/wdoc

Craig