Re: [epiphany] Re: Opening pdf files

["Kristoffer Lundén" <kristoffer lunden gmail com>]

On 11/15/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:

On Nov 13, 2006, at 6:00 AM, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> Isn't the browser a dedicated HTML viewer?
> ...

Indeed it isn't. A Web browser also displays plain text, standalone
Jpegs, PNGs, and GIFs -- and other types (such as Flash or Java) with
plug-ins, whether they're inside an HTML page or not.

Don't forget SVG or indeed any XML file, possibly with stylesheets or other transforms.

I think that the idea that PDFs are somehow special and should be treated as such comes from the incredible bloat, both UI-wise and in terms of load times and memory, that the Adobe plugin creates. While in reality, the format isn't at all that special, and a browser properly designed, using a fast renderer like poppler, should have no problem handling PDFs inside its normal UI and operations.

Not saying that its necessarily the way to go, but look at Evince and Epiphany and see how easy most things would fit into the same UI, it's almost just jump-to-page that is an extra.
 
Now, the Epiphany design philosophy is to delegate anything possible to the outside, and that's probably pretty reasonable although it clutters up easily with many windows, however a *good* and integrated plugin/extension with some thought of integration put into it, unlike Adobes elephant, would be totally awesome for those of us who prefer tabs to windows.

-- Stoffe

Conversely, a dedicated HTML viewer wouldn't need features for things
like reloading, cookies, or HTTP authentication that a Web browser
needs to deal with.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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