interesting news items from twitter

[Bill Walker]

interesting news items from twitter:

http://loftux.com/2012/01/08/replace-alfresco-standard-flash-viewer-with-pdf-js/
> Replace Alfresco standard Flash viewer with pdf.js

> Have you noticed that the flash based previews in Alfresco pdf2swf program (that create the flash) to make it more reliable for large pdfs, and for certain pdfs it could crash the jvm completely. So there was a good reason for the change.
>


http://groups.google.com/group/share-extras-devel/browse_thread/thread/ab0c8ff9b9250064/e4b2cd4c9ab7487e#e4b2cd4c9ab7487e

> I've created an alternative document viewer based on the Mozilla
> project pfd.js. I've posted about it here
> http://loftux.com/2012/01/08/replace-alfresco-standard-flash-viewer-w...
> The concept is simply: Make a pdf thumbnail and display in iframe,
> with pdf.js if possible or fallback to pdf reader plugin if available.
> If it is ok I can add it to Share Extras. It probably need some more
> testing, for example there is some validation code for html5 support
> that may include or exclude browser version that should not. I think
> you can help with that, or just some general comments on the code. But
> I think i may be useful, at least as a way to show how an alternative
> viewer can be implemented.