Mozilla Firefox (known simply as Firefox) is a free and open-source web browser developed for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with a mobile version for Android, by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.
With the recent news that Google has now killed off NPAPI plugins in Chrome 45, it has left many wondering exactly what NPAPI plugins are, and what impact this news will have, if any. Here is a brief history of plugins in web browsers, along with an explanation of what the implications are of Google…
Having spent nearly 3 years building our own PDF to HTML5/SVG/Android converter (which itself relies on our development of a Java PDF library), we know how hard this conversion is and we have a grudging respect for any others trying it. In particular we have been interested in the development of PDF.js… Exactly one week…
After taking a sneak peak at upcoming PDF to SVG functionality for our Online Converter, I was disappointed to see that shapes were not appearing at all in Firefox, but appeared correctly in all other browsers. As I have not been working on PDF to SVG, I made a case for the issue and then…
One of the ‘issues’ with writing HTML5 is using commands which work across all browsers. I came across a good example of this while debugging an issue this morning… In a previous release I added this code snippet if(actualWidth>20 && actualWidth>rawWidth && rawWidth!=actualWidth & el.innerText.search(‘ ‘) > -1){ It actually turns out that this causes…
We have just fixed an interesting little ‘feature‘ with Firefox and HTML5. In Firefox some of the HTML5 pages we generate from our PDF to HTML5 convertor were not appearing with the images on. We hunted this down and it turned out to be nothing to do with the images themselves but with the way…
